Violet's club visits, her request for moss and peacock feathers; building and stocking of garden pond; delay of publication of article.

Violet's visits to a club for working girls; [Liverpool Museum]; advice on bookshelves with ink sketch plan; Christmas plans and gifts.

Violet's career and writing; Lake Tahoe; books read; shipwrecks in recent storm; garden pond; broken boiler; death of Mr Seller.

Journalist's interview; articles on the unemployed and House of Lords, Daily Chronicle; Contemporary Review; storm damage to local houses and shipping; plans for Christmas; night skies.

Violet's bank book missing in post; Jennings's death from typhoid fever; visit by Grandpa and Rose (William Mitten and his daughter); letter re (Annie) Besant in The Woman's Signal; tea and chess meetings begun; ARW writing a "very radical" article for a book.

Paper read at Cambridge University Natural Science Club conversazione, declines honorary degree; Violet's proposed Alpine trip; the Burton family; Violet's career; progress of "social economy" article for book on new reforms; local lecture on Oberammergau passion play.

Violet's expenses; visit to Cambridge; Mrs Myer's photography; ARW suffering from asthma and bronchitis; Aunt Rose's (Rose Mitten) health; "Merrie England"; daffodils at Lytchett.

Visit to Cambridge; Mrs Myer's photography and her son's ill health; "Merrie England"; daffodils at Lytchett.

Marking examination papers; news from her brother William; proposed joint visit by Violet and William; books read; travels of H O Forbes; chess meetings.

Mrs Fisher; geological excursions with grandpa (William Mitten) to Bournemouth and Swanage; chess meetings; The Clarion; proposed visits by aunts Flora and Bessie (Mitten) and two American geologists; proposed visit to Devonshire for ferns; writing for Harris; Violet's expenses.

Trip to Devon, ferns magnificent; letter from her brother William who is on holiday, plans for both to visit Parkstone; itinerary of Violet's planned trip to Switzerland and Italy.

Her proposed tour to Switzerland and Italy with Madame Lund's party, sending £10 towards expenses; arrangement for meeting her brother William and visiting Parkstone; description of ARW's and Ma's (Annie Wallace) ten days in Devon, wildflowers and ferns at Bolt Head, Salcombe and Brent; blue poppies and pink waterlily in flower in garden; two nearby houses including Mr Clement Reid's lodgings destroyed by fire.

The delights of Switzerland; visit by Dr and Mrs Wigglesworth, daughter of H. H. Higgins, from Liverpool, Dr W recently stabbed by a patient at the lunatic asylum, description of incident and surgery on his severed carotid artery; alpine plants collected for ARW by Clement Reid delayed in post and some dead; ARW writing an article on "some Darwinian heresies" for the Fortnightly and about to write another on "The expressiveness of speech"; plans to view Mars with his telescope; William (Violet's brother) back in Newcastle.

Recovery from damage to his eyesight, unable to read or write for previous month; Ma (Annie Wallace) reading papers to him, learning Poe's "Farewell to Earth" by heart to pass the time; visit of Miss Heaton from Natal with a trap-door spider for Violet, can supply a chameleon if wanted; "Clementina" [Clement Reid] has left for Corfe; rearrangement of furniture in study (sketch plan included).

Sending insect specimens, shells, Natal spider and its nest, and a live beetle to Violet for teaching purposes; Miss Heath; books for Violet's exams; plans for her "K.G." [kindergarten], selling "Nutwood" impossible as it brings in £50 a year, income and housing for the family after his death; bad news from California of ARW's brother (John) who has cancer, ARW suspects vaccination the cause; ARW's eyesight.

Recovery of his eyesight, one still inflamed, lost opportunity to view Mars with his telescope, accumulation of reading, writing and chess playing; discovery of a doctor (Turner) at Poole, who is a fellow orchid enthusiast; request for any spare plants if Violet should visit (orchid house) at Liverpool; purchase of educational books for her; unsuitability of Parkstone house for children, but Eleanor and her child may visit; sending two annotated numbers of the Vaccination Enquirer, impossibility of trusting doctors or officials on the subject.

Visit by Mrs Maclachlan and small son Hamish; Miss Macdonald expected; kindergarten books; gardening; completion of article on language; Harris leaving the Fortnightly, opinion of new editor; Violet should visit orchid nursery John Rowan & Co at Garston near Liverpool; Ma (Annie Wallace) going to Hurst for her mother's (Mrs Mitten) golden wedding celebrations; considering asking Clement Reid to Christmas dinner.

Travelling bags for herself and brother William, enclosing postal order; William at Inverkeithing, Scotland, working on lighting for a paper mill; hard frost and snow at Parkstone, Violet's skates; ARW has given Mrs Maclachlan, who studied Sanskrit and other languages at Girton, his paper on language to read.

Winter weather; (travel) bags for Violet and her brother William; William going to Glasgow on another job; ARW's "Evolution" article part-published this month, his article on language due out in three months or more; the Evans's business failing; Violet's final exams and career prospects as a kindergarten teacher; planned chess match, Poole and Parkstone against Bournemouth; sending copy of the "R of R" with interesting articles on "Merry England" and Mr Blatchford; Mrs Maclachlan and Hamish returning to Hindhead; ARW's answer to Mr Mott's enigma; death of Dr Fisher.

Nervous illness of her mother (Annie Wallace), attended by Dr Philpotts; fifth very cold winter in Dorset; no water in house due to frozen water pipes; reports that winter the coldest since 1854; hard frosts in Norfolk, deep snow in Rome, Germany and America, warning Violet not to skate on thin ice; news of Mrs Fisher and Mrs Maclachlan.