Electrical engineering in mines, suggests William contacts Geological Survey; road being made in front of house; Miss Scutt first visitor to house; ducklings and chickens reaction to water, William should read Lloyd Morgan's "Habit & Instinct"; Percy Curtis sends thanks for photos; letter enclosed from (Mr) Wareham (not present); books ARW has read; "Bounder" writing in The Clarion; William and walking companion should look for the "toad in the coal".

The 1902 Rede Lecture by Osborne Reynolds "On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe" - his explanation of gravity similar to Allen's; work on house and garden; reading books for material for his own book, [Man's place in the Universe] hopes to get it out by summer; William Greenell Wallace's business in Ipswich and London.

Progress of house-building, decoration, interior fittings, road and garden; photograph in Black and White [magazine] illustrates ARW article on relationship with Darwin; advice to William on electrical engineering in mines; remembrances to Mac; researching astronomy and physics for new book (Man's Place in the Universe); reading Eben Holden.