- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/38
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/123
Progress of house building; garden plans; payment for Nutwood (Cottage).
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Progress of house building; garden plans; payment for Nutwood (Cottage).
Progress of house building [at "Old Orchard", Broadstone], workmen's shop put up in grounds by Percy Curtis who will mark foundations next week and begin excavating; Mr Donkin says plans ready to send to Mr Barnes and building committee; water mains laid to main road; greenhouse ordered from Cooper; plans to put stove under house to warm both it and greenhouse; William to remember acetylene and fire-brick; sending books Kim and one on Anglo-Saxon history, opinions of both.
House-building, work about to begin.
Progress of house building and garden preparation, problems with water supply.
Progress of house building, planting trees.
Progress of house building; the W C Reader (probably ARW, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures, 1898) has been adopted by the London School Board.
Thanking him for information about acetylene gas supply, asks for address of "Dargue" system London offices; Well Fireplace Co at Newcastle; progress of digging of foundations and making garden (at "Old Orchard", Broadstone), rain likely to flood cellar excavations, plans for drainage; details of cement and brick supply; "Well" "Rational" and "Teal" fires; altered plans for study; William's increase in salary; definition of and immorality of gambling.
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.
House-building and garden.
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.
Progress of garden and house-building, sending William a report on Acetylene generators.
Progress of house-building; gift of garden plants from Italy from Sir Thomas Hanbury.
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.
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).
Progress of house-building and garden; building costs; fossilised animal skull found when digging, sketch enclosed (not present); many visitors to the house; William's sister Violet.
Sketch enclosed (not present) of animal skull found in garden; furniture for house; Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and sister Violet; progress of house-building.
William's holiday at Keswick; visit to Broadstone with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and Olive Casey; aquatic plants for garden arrived from America; slow progress in house-building; Conan Doyle's "Hound story" disappointing; awful West Indian volcanic eruption (Mount Pelee, Martinique, 8 May 1902).
Progress of house-building; William's holiday at Keswick, Mount Skiddaw; offer from a doctor to lease Corfe View.