Marking exam papers; writing address for L.N. (Land Nationalisation) Society; Violet's studies; local walks.
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Marking exam papers; writing address for L.N. (Land Nationalisation) Society; Violet's studies; local walks.
Family members; Nutwood Cottage; visitors; Bull's Exhibition of Orchids at Chelsea.
Award to ARW of Royal Society medal; psychical research, article in Arena; visits to neighbours; books; the French revolution.
Family illness and illness of Mr Sharpe; Violet's expenses; house alterations; arrival of medal and cheque from Royal Society.
Confusion over correspondence with Mrs Lund; Violet's "adventure" on journey to Liverpool [train de-railed]; enclosed letter from Croydon (not present).
House renovation; family affairs; neighbours; kindergartens; ARW's lectures and article in Arena.
Covent Garden market, Natural History Museum and Kew gardens as sources of garden plants; alterations to house; Mr Sharpe's health; Mr Pascoe's "Museum" at Westbourne Park.
Violet's expenses; alterations to house; new neighbours the Nichols.
Violet attending a [public political] demonstration, labour conditions, the eight hour day, wages; gardening; neighbours.
Forwarding Zoo tickets, suicide of gardener's wife Mrs Monk, books, got £20 from Arena for his paper, written paper on "American flowers and forests" for Fortnightly, hopes natural history lectures are not too hard.
Being in London at Aunt Fanny's, possibility of meeting Mr Jonck at Lillie Road, asks for ticket to Botanical Gardens, has seen proofs of Professor Lloyd-Morgan's children's book on animals, weather recalls "the pleasant days of Noah", sending essay on problems of physiology.
ARW's lecture in Dundee; visit to York; family members, enclosing letters (not present); (Samuel) Butler and Darwinism.
ARW's lecture tour; gardening; Violet's lessons on seeds, sending book by Lubbock.
Suffering from influenza; Arena (magazine); play "Henry VIII", actors Macready and Irving; Hawker Garland's writing; letter from her brother William; gardeners Monk and Wareham; chess by correspondence.
Sending Malay beetles to Violet; Madame's (Madame Michaelis) opinion of ARW's article; lecture by Mrs Besant; ARW's health.
The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (diagram enclosed -see WP1/2/84); death of (Henry Walter) Bates; chess games with Miss West, Mr Pocock and Mr Linton; visit by the Sharpes and Mrs Besant; Mrs Besant's lectures; Miss Webb; plays Hamlet and Henry VIII.
House at Godalming; family; Violet's order for pair of hedgehogs; bookbinding costs; horses; ARW's review of Pampas book; new medal.
Tickets for Zoo; servants; socialism; Examiners meeting; Land Nationalisation meeting; horticultural exhibitions.
Gardening; writing; examining; Geographical medal; (Linnean Society) medal; family.
Growing grape-vines; marking exam papers, including examples of some answers; ARW's address to Land Nationalisation meeting; Nutwood cottage garden.