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Tract on small-holdings and Parish Council, Dorset County Council, Board of Agriculture and public meetings on small-holdings; entries and prizes for a Reading Contest.
Offering William the opportunity to edit My Life for a proposed shorter, cheap edition, describing the sections to be cut. Work will be offered to the Casey's if William cannot do it.
New edition of My Life with instructions for cutting sections and ink sketch of method of marking deletions.
With instructions to William for editing proof sheets for new edition of My Life.
Correspondence with Mr Waugh; [Daily News] Reading (competition); plans to spend £25 payment when Spruce book (Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, by Richard Spruce, edited and condensed and with a biography by ARW, published Dec 1908), finished by building a long cement windbreak in the garden; an artist, Mr Young, visiting to finish some of Spruce's outline drawings, four new Spruce pictures found, several photographs including native portraits will also illustrate the book, first proofs have arrived.
Method of marking up proof sheets; progress on building of windbreak wall, details of method of construction with ink sketches showing pier construction and position of completed wall in relation to road and kitchen garden.
Enclosing notes (not present) for William and Benham; building of fences; D.N. [Daily News] reading competition; work on proofs, (of Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, [Dec. 1908]), discovery of Spruce drawings by Mr Slater.
With instructions for editing new edition of My Life; progress of fence-building; Daily News reading competition.
An enclosure [Income tax form not present] William's career, health, income tax, and jobs available in Australia.
With instructions re. marking up proofs for new edition of My Life; William's health and income tax; silver medallion of ARW by Bruce Joy on display at the Royal Academy.
Editing proofs for new edition of My Life; exercise with a chair; gardening.
Sending a copy of the "Life" (My Life, A Record of Events and Opinions, abridged one volume edition), Mr Waugh disappointed at small number taken by booksellers, 2 volume edition (1905) still being sold; invitation from the RI (Royal Institution of Great Britain) to give an evening lecture at the Jubilee of the Origin of Species next January, initially reluctant but now has some new ideas and has accepted provisionally, Crookes (Honorary Secretary) has offered to read on his behalf if necessary.
Doctor's Douglas Wood's report on William's health; sending a cheque; his own health improving; outline of lecture (for the Royal Institution) done, title to be The World of Life: As Visualised and Interpreted by Darwinism; wooden fence almost finished; proofs of index to Spruce book (Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, Dec. 1908) only just arrived, six weeks after MS sent, so publication of book may be delayed; reading The Yellow Room, in the style of Gaborian, not as good as Sherlock Holmes; has decided O.M. means "Old Man"; sending book [My Life] to Benham today.
Request from Mrs Swinton for full names of William and his sister Violet, Aneurin Williams, barrister and a director of the "Garden City Company" her husband's executor, past correspondence about Mr Swinton's will on behalf of the Land Nationalisation Society, shares for William and Violet; arrival of the (Royal Society) Copley medals, one gold and one silver; letter from Lord Chancellor excusing ARW from personal attendance at the Investiture (of the Order of Merit); his own and William's health; progress of writing lecture (on Darwinism, for the Royal Institution).
Order of Merit and Grand Cross Order of the Bath, knighthood, precedence and Whittaker's (Almanack).
Arrival of a cheque for £50 from the Royal Society, a bonus paid to Copley medallists; visit by artist Mr Strang deferred; visit by Mr Rann of Pall Mall Magazine with photographer, interview and display of medals; visit by Lady Wimborne re "Women's Liberal Club", spoke to her about Socialism; letter from H C Legge, secretary to the Order of Merit, re delivery of insignia.
Investiture and receipt of Order of Merit medal from Colonel Legge, describing documents and insignia in detail; conversation with Colonel Legge about his attendance on and drives around the English countryside with the German Emperor, the Emperor's love of England.
Books sent to his son William Wallace for Christmas, Scottish artist Strang's visit, portrait in chalks [of ARW] for Windsor; William's sister Violet going to Hurst; lecture sent to London to be typed.