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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Littledale discusses the occasions he treated ARW for ailments, including a case of eczema.
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.
Illness of William's mother Annie Wallace; William's studies; house alterations; Clarke's patent syphon gas stove; new electric railway under the Thames.
House-building, interior decoration; plans to vacate house at Parkstone 20th September; visit by grandpa (William's grandfather, William Mitten).
William Greenell Wallace's offer to present to the Museum specimens collected by ARW, and arrangements for their collection; list in ink in William Greenell Wallace's hand headed "Objects sent by parcel post Aug 1" includes figures, spoons, wooden charms and a coconut scoop, all from Dorey, human hair from Timor and an axe and comb from the Amazon.
Safe arrival of objects from the Amazon and Indonesia sent on 1 Aug.
Offer of a throwing stone from Nive, Polynesia.
Donation of book Savage Island by Thomas Powell; annotated in pencil and ink by William Greenell Wallace including "Related to the ovoid throwing stone from Hurst...".