Visit to lawyer in Chancery Lane and asking William to reserve hotel rooms.

Valuation of books and pamphlets including William Mitten's "Mosses".

William's career; catalogue of priced books and drawings sent to aunt Flora (Mitten); Parish Council meeting; work on Spruce.

Possible legal proceedings in a case involving non-payment by a customer to his sister-in-law Flora (Mitten). Rough plan of dining, kitchen, hall and drawing rooms [of "Old Orchard", Broadstone] in pencil on top half of last page.

William's career, enclosing a letter from H E Dresser; a note for Russell [Rollo] [note not enclosed]; dimensions and cost of land for garden, land rental costs.

The [Essex] Club; gardening; lawyers fees, estate duty, valuations; proposal to buy Consols.

William's lodgings at Saltburn; Hardwicke & Blaber and legal proceedings relating to Dr Scott; surface temperature of Mars; has written to Prof Barrett of Dublin.

Enclosing a paper (not present) on glacial valleys sent by a young man from Middlesborough; death and funeral of Mr Weston; Fred Birch arrived at Minas Geraes; struggling with temperatures and canals of Mars (for Is Mars Habitable?, published Dec 1907), has written to mathematicians Sharpe?, Fisher, Barrett and Poynting on the subject; suffering from asthma, thinks diet the cause; Violet to visit.

An interesting press cutting on Lowell and Mars sent by William; enclosing a cutting (not present) about Kipling; Prof Poynting to reply to Lowell's mathematical paper; ARW's book (presumably Is Mars Habitable?) finished, chapter on temperature of Mars sent to Poynting for comment, MS to go to Macmillan; possibility of mean temperature of planets being affected by rate of rotation, Osmond Fisher's opinion differs from ARW's, Stefan's Law.

Sending William's clothes; MS of Mars book (Is Mars Habitable?) sent to Macmillan's after extensive revision and correction, asks William to read proofs, Prof Poynting to read proofs of new chapter.

Proofs of "Mars" (Is Mars Habitable?), all William's suggestions adopted, Lowell quoted on atmosphere of Mars; Lowell doing a series of popular articles in Century magazine so a "fair stand-up fight" between him and ARW; will now continue with work on "Spruce", (Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, Dec. 1908) intends to include matter from Spruce articles and reports for Linnean Society, Geographical Society and Blue books and some new letters, cutting out much of the Journal and botanical matter to make the book more readable; supposes they must wait 6 months for the "Widows" [Scottish Widows insurance].