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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.
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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.
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Thanks for letter and pamphlet on vivisection; explains that this was not covered in ARW's Wonderful Century because vivisection "is not specially connected with the 19th-Century". Proposes to call the enlarged edition "The century of new ideas in science and the arts …"; Phrenology and Hypnotism were [practically, ins] discoveries of the 19th Century; vivisection is "wholly bad" but in a different category of "evils" as does not take away personal freedom.
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.
Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings; debt; gravitational theory, sound waves and particles; enclosure of a Spiritualist poem (not present); [Inspirational Medium Lizzie Osten].
Progress of house building, interior decoration and fittings, drainage problems, costs; writing an article for an American paper to earn some money.
Progress of house-building; William's sister Violet expected home tomorrow; debt; advance from Macmillan's; article ("Man's Place in the Universe") based on Wonderful Century written for New York Independent whose agent suggests a new book with royalties in advance; William's career prospects as electrical engineer in mines.
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