Her birthday; drainage work; visit from Miss D'Arcy; Swanley Gardening College and gardening as a profession for women; news of her brother William who has sent the mounted head of a deer; Clarion and Chronicle.
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Her birthday; drainage work; visit from Miss D'Arcy; Swanley Gardening College and gardening as a profession for women; news of her brother William who has sent the mounted head of a deer; Clarion and Chronicle.
Her plans to return to England, possibility of visiting the Burrell's, German schools, future career; ARW researching family genealogy for his autobiography, Mrs Gorringe's refusal to supply a photograph of his great-great uncle William Greenell; local house sales; the Evanses, Miss Roberts; Mrs Symonds, Miss North.
Possibility of teaching posts for her in Cardiff or Oxted and school visits in Jena (Germany); sending her a copies of the Humanitarian, an Anglo-Russian paper and a German psychical paper; writing an article on an Irish cooperative farm to illustrate socialism and an article for the Fortnightly; Wonderful Century not yet in German; comparison of the Maha Bharata and the Iliad; unidentifiable beetle; English tea.
Planting orchids and blue South African water lilies in garden; geology of East Grinstead and Limpsfield; visit of Mr William Greenell Wallace No 2 and his wife (from America), engineering work in Stockton (California); requests for a description of Miss Clarke and Violet's new school post [in Limpsfield], local German ladies; Mr Stillman; Hudson's book of British Birds; visit to the New Forest with Dora; regards to Mr Hobson.
Her new teaching post, with detailed advice on a formal agreement re salary and conditions to be drawn up by Mr Pease, and advising her to leave if this is not done; sending some frogbit and Villarsin.
Her new accommodation, asking for a plan of the house; "the pedigree Mrs Wallace" in London with a photo of her mother resembling ARW; search for illustrations for his new book, has photos from the "Challenger" (expedition), Anthropology Institute, [Royal] Geographical Society, Admiral Maclear, and his own Yosemite Valley photos, intends to get new photos of Birds of Paradise, negotiating for woodcuts from various books; has a letter in The Clarion on the Boers; Chronicle and Daily Mail on Johannesburg mining millionaires.