Progress of house-building and garden; visit to Corfe with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) sister Violet and Miss Buckton.
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Progress of house-building and garden; visit to Corfe with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) sister Violet and Miss Buckton.
Progress of house-building and garden; building costs; fossilised animal skull found when digging, sketch enclosed (not present); many visitors to the house; William's sister Violet.
Sketch enclosed (not present) of animal skull found in garden; furniture for house; Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and sister Violet; progress of house-building.
William's holiday at Keswick; visit to Broadstone with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and Olive Casey; aquatic plants for garden arrived from America; slow progress in house-building; Conan Doyle's "Hound story" disappointing; awful West Indian volcanic eruption (Mount Pelee, Martinique, 8 May 1902).
Progress of house-building; William's holiday at Keswick, Mount Skiddaw; offer from a doctor to lease Corfe View.
House-building; garden; colour cure for sore eyes; final corrections to Ms of new edition of Wonderful Century.
Dr Paterson to lease Corfe View for 7 years; ARW plans to move into new house in September; garden; sister Violet coming home on a visit.
House-building; cost of building materials; estimate of total cost; hopes for an advance payment from Macmillan and money from Swan-Sonnenschein. Sketch of flooring section of house on p2.
William's engineering career; heavy bills for building; possibility of bank loan; Corfe View house; garden.
Re: William's career; house-building [of "Old Orchard" in Broadstone, Dorset] almost complete; costs of building. Enclosed is a drawing of the "North Bedroom".
Breeches Bible; William's engineering work at Rugby; Rugby school; house-building.
House-building, interior decoration; plans to vacate house at Parkstone 20th September; visit by grandpa (William's grandfather, William Mitten).
House-building, interior decoration and fittings, plans for moving in, costs; visits by grandpa (William's grandfather, William Mitten) and aunt Bessie (Mitten); William's sister Violet.
Progress of building work and moving in to new house, asks William to come for 3 weeks to help; temporary lodgings in Broadstone; visit by Australian cousin; William's sister Violet arriving.
Arrangement for William's arrival at Broadstone; temporary lodgings; progress of house-building work; cost of building and wages; visit of Australian cousin Charles E C Wilson; visit of a young Navy sub-lieutenant (unnamed) from Portsmouth.
Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings; house-building costs, William's offer of a loan refused, stocks and shares sold, New Vancouver Coal Co, East Af [Africa] Tel [Telegraph] debenture, payment from Macmillan due, proposed paying guests; explanation of gravitational force; new Encyclopaedia Britannica; garden.
Progress of house building, decoration and interior fittings; disputed bill; engagement of a servant; Le Sage's gravitational theory.
Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings; debt; gravitational theory, sound waves and particles; enclosure of a Spiritualist poem (not present); [Inspirational Medium Lizzie Osten].
Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings, drainage problems, costs; writing an article for an American paper to earn some money.
Progress of house-building; William's sister Violet expected home tomorrow; debt; advance from Macmillan's; article ("Man's Place in the Universe") based on Wonderful Century written for New York Independent whose agent suggests a new book with royalties in advance; William's career prospects as electrical engineer in mines.