Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings; debt; gravitational theory, sound waves and particles; enclosure of a Spiritualist poem (not present); [Inspirational Medium Lizzie Osten].
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Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings; debt; gravitational theory, sound waves and particles; enclosure of a Spiritualist poem (not present); [Inspirational Medium Lizzie Osten].
Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings, drainage problems, costs; writing an article for an American paper to earn some money.
Progress of house-building; William's sister Violet expected home tomorrow; debt; advance from Macmillan's; article ("Man's Place in the Universe") based on Wonderful Century written for New York Independent whose agent suggests a new book with royalties in advance; William's career prospects as electrical engineer in mines.
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.
Domestic affairs; William's career prospects.
Domestic affairs; William's career prospects; progress of work on book and articles.
Domestic affairs; William's career prospects; progress of work on book and articles.
Progress of work on book, material on electrical measurement of starlight to be included.
Progress of work on book. Annotated in pencil, possibly in William's hand.
William's career prospects; progress of work on book.
Progress of work on book. Annotated in pencil, possibly in William's hand.
Approval of William's notes [on proofs of Man's place in the Universe], sending four more chapters, relieved to be finished, thinks the book will sell well; enclosing a letter (not present) from Hicks; going to meet Mrs Fisher.
Proof reading of his book, [Man's place in the Universe] sending the last four chapters; agrees section on the sun vague, argument on light of stars cut out; gravitation and angular velocity of forces at earth's centre; Mr Marshall to read proofs also, asks William Greenell Wallace to compare readings with him; writing rushed but can be improved in a new edition. The last page is annotated in pencil [in William Greenell Wallace's hand] with mathematical calculations.
William Greenell Wallace's proof corrections [to Man's Place in the Universe], stars, Milky Way, Solar Cluster, Jupiter; speculation in accordance with known facts; difference of opinion over spiritualism; writing an article for the Fortnightly; purchase of a telescope from Cooke of York, better than the last, making a stand for it; trying to help Fred Birch to get a post as Museum curator in the Federated Malay States.
Domestic affairs; William's career prospects; progress of work his book The Wonderful Century.
Domestic affairs; William's career prospects.
William's career prospects; visits from aunt Flora (Mitten) and others.
Domestic affairs; William's career; Old Carthusians; "The Bounder" column in The Clarion.