Thanks for letter and pamphlet on vivisection; explains that this was not covered in ARW's Wonderful Century because vivisection "is not specially connected with the 19th-Century". Proposes to call the enlarged edition "The century of new ideas in science and the arts …"; Phrenology and Hypnotism were [practically, ins] discoveries of the 19th Century; vivisection is "wholly bad" but in a different category of "evils" as does not take away personal freedom.

Progress of house building; extra expense and days lost through replacement of faulty windows, re-hanging a door, missing door locks and window glass of wrong thickness (ink sketches of windows and door latches on two pages); bills of £120 this month, economy needed; bookshelves fitted in study but no shelves elsewhere, house full of unpacked crates; work on garden and greenhouse; sheep, cattle and horses nibbling plants; "Manx Codlen" and "Northern Greening" apples in orchard; teak front door begun; parrot now well and beginning to talk.

Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings; house-building costs, William's offer of a loan refused, stocks and shares sold, New Vancouver Coal Co, East Af [Africa] Tel [Telegraph] debenture, payment from Macmillan due, proposed paying guests; explanation of gravitational force; new Encyclopaedia Britannica; garden.