| Description | Particular entries include details about the education of her children. Cecil continues to attend Radley College, and obtains 'the 1st £50 scholarship', recorded on 25 January. Harold begins at school at Bruce Castle on 25 April and Charlotte visits him there on 16 June and takes him to a pastry cook as a treat. He arrives home for the summer with a prize for Classics on 22 July. She continues to teach Mary at home, and Sidney now also begins his lessons with her, which include French. She also continues to teach at the school, noting that she 'went to school exam. which was very satisfactory on the whole', 23 June.
Other activities include her parish responsibilities, helping Fred with the Clothing Club, and she also writes 'we began a night school in the kitchen' 25 November. She mentions building work taking place in the church, 12 May, and also suggests that some re-decorating was taking place at home: 'the drawing room carpet taken up' 5 August. She takes several trips to London to visit her mother, and travels around the city by omnibus.
Leisure activities include a visit to Henley Regatta with Mary and Fred, where they meet Cecil, 26 June, and an outing to Culham court in a fly, on which 'our horse fell down on the way and we changed him' 16 July. She visits Reading for 'Ch. Treat' 21 August 'to see H[untley] & Palmers Biscuit Factory, St. Giles Ch[urch]', and the family, with the exception of Cecil and Harold, went on holiday to Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight in September and October. Charlotte is unwell on the first day of the holiday and has a mustard and linseed poultice, 23 September, but in general her health appears to be better. They visit Ventnor, Shanklin Chine, and Sandown, which Charlotte thinks 'a dull looking place', and take a walk to Bonchurch to see both the old and new church, 25 September. They also visit the beach, and Charlotte mentions taking baths.
The layout of the diary now allows space to write Sundays entries.
Reading matter includes: 'Mozley on Carlyle's Cromwell', 'The Resolve' by Carter, 'Carter on 'Agony'', 'Rest in God' by Carter, 'Mozley on Job', 'Hutching's Book', and 'The Situation' in Church Quarterly', |