Bills from Violet's dressmaker and dentist; instructions for obtaining a copy of the County History of Lancashire; death of Crumpet, a family cat, and the fate of her kittens; ARW's article on language published, leading article on it in the Daily Chronicle; regards to Eleanor; Ma's (Annie Mitten) health; Violet's brother William still at Govan.

Improvements to the orchid house; chess; correspondence; local gossip about Mrs Travers; details from a book on diet and life-style by an "inspired crank"; returning photos; returning coral named by Dr Allman.

Bacon sent by Eleanor.

Orchids, some from General Dunn about to flower; visit from Doveton, a poet and psychical researcher from Torquay; Violet's brother William in Hull; Ma's (Annie Wallace) eyes improving; poor health of Miss Marshall Hall; arrival of bacon but no bill; regards to Eleanor; instructions to send her brother William the "Jungle Books".

Galton's work on visualisation; Violet's preference for snails over orchids; her Literary Society; Tolstoy's letter in the previous day's Chronicle; books, recommends J Muir and Besant; visiting poet (Doveton).

Sudden death of Captain Marshall Hall; Violet's proposed walking trip with Ma (Annie Wallace) and Eleanor, letter from Mrs Lowe; Violet's brother William's visit to Bakewell; The Clarionettes, [Clarion Cycling Club] Nunquam, (Robert Blatchford) the Bounder [Edward Ray]; sending weeds and newts to Violet.

Violet's proposed trip to Switzerland, relative merits of chalets, hotels and possible itineraries; flowers in garden; sending Zoo tickets; regards to Eleanor.

Visit to Parkstone to see her brother William; bacon.

Accommodation and itinerary on her proposed trip to Switzerland, with details from a letter by Mr Musson including his address at Villeneuve; [Lumt] the cat has had kittens.

Her proposed trip to Switzerland, enclosing a letter from Miss Lowe (not present) with details of a chalet; arrangements for payment for a new machine [bicycle]; Harris asking for ARW articles, may rewrite some of his lectures; visits by Violet's brother William and Grandpa (William Mitten).

Books and The Clarion; chess; Violet's new bicycle; Mrs Fisher's new book; beetles and snails; explanation of the movement of a free pendulum relative to the movement of the earth with suggestions for classroom experiment; Mrs Julia Dawson of The Clarion.

Lectures on children's education by American visitor Mrs Stetson at Parkstone and Poole, her popularity, relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe, and poetry; talks with her on poetry, socialism and Weisman's theory; death of "the Bounder" from typhoid fever.

His voluminous correspondence, Percy Burell; lime tree blight; gas leak in house; new patent fire mantel; Professor Poulton and proposed statue of Darwin in Oxford; Violet's salary.

Her brother William; arrangements for Christmas; bicycles; Mrs Stetson; Mr Waddington; visit from the Sharpes and Lady Torrens, Lady Torrens on spiritualism; Violet's K.G. (Kindergarten) magazine.

Request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent.

Her expenses; her brother William [sailing for America]; Century (magazine); whale on beach at Boscombe; ARW review of book on instinct by Lloyd Morgan for Natural Science; Grandpa's (William Mitten) purchase of land.

Sending her birthday greetings; and re. her brother William and Mac sailing [for America] from Liverpool on March 3rd.

Suffering from influenza; Arena (magazine); play "Henry VIII", actors Macready and Irving; Hawker Garland's writing; letter from her brother William; gardeners Monk and Wareham; chess by correspondence.

The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (diagram enclosed -see WP1/2/84); death of (Henry Walter) Bates; chess games with Miss West, Mr Pocock and Mr Linton; visit by the Sharpes and Mrs Besant; Mrs Besant's lectures; Miss Webb; plays Hamlet and Henry VIII.

Letters from her brother William; coughs and colds; Stevenson's New Arabian Nights.