Probate [of his mother's will] and payment of Wallace family legacies with details of amounts; sister Fanny's finances; Thomas Sims's business; loss of money through investments; details of annual domestic expenditure; comparative cost of living in London and the country; sales of Malay Archipelago; application for museum position; request for seeds of wild Californian plants; children, ARW's daughter, now 4 months old, named Violet Isabel.