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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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.
Progress of house building; 3 chimneys up, Percy (Curtis) proud of appearance of roof's gables, hips and dormers, felting and tiling to be done; annoying delays in fitting window frames; rough calculation of 400 feet of water piping, good book on hot water supply by Mr Dye; choosing fixtures and fittings for kitchen and bathroom from Spring? and Marten of Stratford catalogue; electric bells to be fitted; suggests William might find books on surveying in old Newcastle bookshops.
House-building; garden; colour cure for sore eyes; final corrections to Ms of new edition of Wonderful Century.
Dr Paterson to lease Corfe View for 7 years; ARW plans to move into new house in September; garden; sister Violet coming home on a visit.
House-building; cost of building materials; estimate of total cost; hopes for an advance payment from Macmillan and money from Swan-Sonnenschein. Sketch of flooring section of house on p2.
William's engineering career; heavy bills for building; possibility of bank loan; Corfe View house; garden.
Re: William's career; house-building [of "Old Orchard" in Broadstone, Dorset] almost complete; costs of building. Enclosed is a drawing of the "North Bedroom".
Breeches Bible; William's engineering work at Rugby; Rugby school; house-building.
House-building, interior decoration; plans to vacate house at Parkstone 20th September; visit by grandpa (William's grandfather, William Mitten).
House-building, interior decoration and fittings, plans for moving in, costs; visits by grandpa (William's grandfather, William Mitten) and aunt Bessie (Mitten); William's sister Violet.
Progress of building work and moving in to new house, asks William to come for 3 weeks to help; temporary lodgings in Broadstone; visit by Australian cousin; William's sister Violet arriving.
Arrangement for William's arrival at Broadstone; temporary lodgings; progress of house-building work; cost of building and wages; visit of Australian cousin Charles E C Wilson; visit of a young Navy sub-lieutenant (unnamed) from Portsmouth.
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.
Progress of house building, decoration and interior fittings; disputed bill; engagement of a servant; Le Sage's gravitational theory.