Sending crocus (bulbs) and a lily, with instructions for planting and care; will send snakes soon; arrangements for Violet's final exams, suggesting Miss MacDonald might substitute for her at the Kindergarten for six weeks; cost of a glass prism; purchase of book Portraits & Autographs (of 100 men).

Invitation to Eleanor; a book ordered from America; sending flowers from garden and some orchids; proposed visit to Mr Evans to get plants; exam meetings; accumulation of letters, reviews to write, and chess games; problems with greenhouse blinds; news of the death of ARW's brother (John).

Examination meetings and reports, choosing orchids at Witley; gift of Barmah [Burma] orchids; gardening; her brother William's plans and Violet's proposed walking tour; possibility of Aunt Bessie (Bessie Mitten) and Ma (Annie Wallace) taking a Polytechnic tour to Switzerland; sending a copy of his address on the unemployed; sending £5 towards cost of Violet's fees and lodgings; proposed excursion near Blandford with the Bournemouth Botanic Club; remembrances to Eleanor.

Her exam expenses and fees, sending £10 towards them; Silk [George Silk] has come to spend a week; news from Ma (Annie Wallace ) and Aunt Rose (Rose Mitten) in Lucerne; costs of Switzerland excursion, ARW and Grandpa's (William Mitten) plans to visit Switzerland; sending tickets [to the Zoo] for July; roses sent to Violet's brother William.

Bills from Violet's dressmaker and dentist; instructions for obtaining a copy of the County History of Lancashire; death of Crumpet, a family cat, and the fate of her kittens; ARW's article on language published, leading article on it in the Daily Chronicle; regards to Eleanor; Ma's (Annie Mitten) health; Violet's brother William still at Govan.

Improvements to the orchid house; chess; correspondence; local gossip about Mrs Travers; details from a book on diet and life-style by an "inspired crank"; returning photos; returning coral named by Dr Allman.

Bacon sent by Eleanor.

Orchids, some from General Dunn about to flower; visit from Doveton, a poet and psychical researcher from Torquay; Violet's brother William in Hull; Ma's (Annie Wallace) eyes improving; poor health of Miss Marshall Hall; arrival of bacon but no bill; regards to Eleanor; instructions to send her brother William the "Jungle Books".

Galton's work on visualisation; Violet's preference for snails over orchids; her Literary Society; Tolstoy's letter in the previous day's Chronicle; books, recommends J Muir and Besant; visiting poet (Doveton).

Visit to Parkstone to see her brother William; bacon.

Trains and route to Parkstone from Waterloo; her brother William and the Clarion Cycling Club at Bakewell.

Sudden death of Captain Marshall Hall; Violet's proposed walking trip with Ma (Annie Wallace) and Eleanor, letter from Mrs Lowe; Violet's brother William's visit to Bakewell; The Clarionettes, [Clarion Cycling Club] Nunquam, (Robert Blatchford) the Bounder [Edward Ray]; sending weeds and newts to Violet.

Violet's proposed trip to Switzerland, relative merits of chalets, hotels and possible itineraries; flowers in garden; sending Zoo tickets; regards to Eleanor.

Accommodation and itinerary on her proposed trip to Switzerland, with details from a letter by Mr Musson including his address at Villeneuve; [Lumt] the cat has had kittens.

Her proposed trip to Switzerland, enclosing a letter from Miss Lowe (not present) with details of a chalet; arrangements for payment for a new machine [bicycle]; Harris asking for ARW articles, may rewrite some of his lectures; visits by Violet's brother William and Grandpa (William Mitten).

Books and The Clarion; chess; Violet's new bicycle; Mrs Fisher's new book; beetles and snails; explanation of the movement of a free pendulum relative to the movement of the earth with suggestions for classroom experiment; Mrs Julia Dawson of The Clarion.

Lectures on children's education by American visitor Mrs Stetson at Parkstone and Poole, her popularity, relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe, and poetry; talks with her on poetry, socialism and Weisman's theory; death of "the Bounder" from typhoid fever.

His voluminous correspondence, Percy Burell; lime tree blight; gas leak in house; new patent fire mantel; Professor Poulton and proposed statue of Darwin in Oxford; Violet's salary.

Request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent.

Her brother William; arrangements for Christmas; bicycles; Mrs Stetson; Mr Waddington; visit from the Sharpes and Lady Torrens, Lady Torrens on spiritualism; Violet's K.G. (Kindergarten) magazine.