| Description | Particular entries include details of the time spent teaching her children. She teaches Mary reading and writing, and tells her stories, while she continues to teach Cecil and Harold more advanced subjects: 'did French with the boys', 8 January; 'Made the boys do some French', 3 February; and 'Had 3 boys for music', 4 February. She also goes to teach at the school. Cecil is examined in Latin and Greek on 24 November. She also continues to assist her husband with parish matters, taking the 'Club' on Mondays, visiting parishioners, including 'poor Mrs Theobald' who has recently lost a child on17 April, helping with her husband's sermons, and with the housekeeping of the church.
She has no serious health concerns, though frequently mentions having headaches, and records that Fred is often in pain with his 'bad side'. She visits the dentist with the boys on 10 November.
She visits her mother at the beginning of June, and again in London with Cecil and Harold at the end of December. She notes that 'the hay cutting began' on 9 June, and also mentions a visit to Henley regatta with the boys on 24 June. The family travel to Folkestone on 2 September where they stay for the month. They go for walks and to the beach and harbour, sit out on the cliff, and go to see the regatta and fireworks. Charlotte spends a lot of time sitting in a bath chair.
Reading matter includes 'Newman's pamphlet', Pusey's 'Notes on minor prophets', 'Carter on Revelation' 'Spiritual Instructions', 'The coming of the comforter', 'Mannings answer to Gladstone', mentioned on 28 April, 'Sadler's Bible Truth', 'The One Sacrifice' and 'Wilberforce on the Incarnation'. |