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Progress of house building at "Old Orchard" (Broadstone); collapse of cellar excavations after wet weather but cellar walls now going up, plans for drainage of cellar, concrete footings for outer walls well advanced, three bricklayers and six labourers working, Mr Donkin's drawings for windows done; horses and cows from adjacent fields have eaten some garden plants, fencing now improved; ARW has recommenced work on new edition of his New Century and finished chapter on Astronomy; request for information on the "Dargue" system of acetylene gas.
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House-building and garden.
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Recommended treatment if William contracts small-pox; progress of house-building; beginning autobiography; writing Astronomy chapter for new edition of Wond. Cent (ARW, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures, 1898); Macmillan request for reprint of Malay Archipelago.
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Progress of garden and house-building, sending William a report on Acetylene generators.
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Progress of house-building; gift of garden plants from Italy from Sir Thomas Hanbury.
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Receipt of plants from Italy; progress of house-building and garden; wages of labourers; cost of materials; arrival of Miss Buckton, a paying guest; William's sister Violet; encloses letter from the Cape (not present).
Gardening work at Broadstone; visitors at Broadstone; progress of house-building; William's holidays; sister Violet at home; Miss Buckton.
Progress of house-building and garden; visit to Corfe with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) sister Violet and Miss Buckton.
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Forwarding of a sextant and book, suggests William takes readings and compares results with Ordnance Survey map, gives detailed instructions for surveying fields and boundaries; progress of house building, walls and ceiling joists, expects roof to go on in a month; Bingo? unwell so has done no digging; Greenhouse leaks; pond filled and red water lilies planted, plans to exchange water plants with a nurseryman in Christchurch [Dorset]; glad William has met more Socialists, encloses letter from a Socialist correspondent (unnamed, letter not present).