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Thanking ARW for sending Mr Gladstone a vaccination leaflet.
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Her [move to] London and resignation from current job; The Wonderful Century, verses and mottos wanted for chapter headings, Longfellow, Mr Mott; design wanted for cover; [Mr Chant] to read proofs; Mrs Fisher; Eucalyptus in garden damaged by snow; book on vaccination and letter from her brother William sent last week.
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Her career [failure to get work in London], proposing she spend a year in Germany learning German, offering £50 towards expenses.
Her proposal to bring a child to stay at Parkstone; instructions for packing goods for rail transport; proposed trip to Germany and learning the German language; letter from her brother William in Denver; aunt Wallace (Mary Wallace, wife of John) and cousin May coming (from America) for a month; joke about a child's view of God.
Violet's expenses; oblique references to a letter, a photo and a lost key; ARW's book (The Wonderful Century) published today.
Violet's itinerary, request for alpine plants; Ma's (Annie Wallace) health; trip to Tufa pits with her brother William and Mr C Reid; (fossil) leaf beds at Flag Hind Chine and Bournemouth; new chess player Mr Adams; disappointing attempts with telescope, stand needed; Mr Ponton leaving for Baden.
Her journey to Blankenhain, with detailed questions about accommodation, people and food; news from her brother William in America re Mac, Hicks, camping and travel in a covered wagon; Vaccination Bill in House of Lords, sending copy of report in the Chronicle; reviews of ARW's book, letter from Ian Mclaren [John Watson]; visits from Mrs Archer and Mr Scott; the Wallace's (Violet's aunt Mary and cousin May) to visit.
Her letter describing her journey to Blankenberg and [Keilhaus], Herr and Frau Rektor Schulz and school; visits to Parkstone by Mr and Mrs Dunn and P Cambridge who is describing and drawing spiders; "The Reminder" on vaccination laws, ARW's letter in response; first favourable reviews (of Wonderful Century) in the Inquirer and the Literary Gazette; regards to Eleanor.
Fate of Ma's (Annie Wallace) letter and parcel; the Schulz's move from Blankenhain to Possneck; learning the German language; letter from her brother William (in America) re camping, hunting, and breakdown of wagon; ARW's letter on vaccination in the "Parkstone Reminder" sent by Mr Tebb to several newspapers and printed in The Times, copies to be distributed; visits by junior and senior Dunn families; The Clarion; The Daily Chronicle on victory at Khartoum.
Dresden and its art galleries and museums; suggestions for articles by Violet on German school and kindergarten teaching methods for the Fortnightly or Harris's Saturday Review; usefulness of keeping notes on German family life and manners; the Chronicle and Hon. M. Carnegie on De Rougemont's life with savages in Australia, Wide World Magazine; Clarion; letter from Lord Grimthorpe on conversion to anti-vaccination by ARW's book.
Sending letters; newspapers on De Rougemont; letter from her brother William in America; Californian edition [by William Dorey] of Omar Khayam from Mrs Wallace of Stockton (Violet's aunt Mary) first edition of Wonderful Century, 2000 copies almost sold out, 1000 more to be printed; Lord Grimthorpe; photographic portraits of ARW by Miss Chant, including one for an American magazine.
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