| Description | Particular entries include details of Charlotte and Mary's continuing poor health. Mary has her eyes tested by Mr Cargill in Harley Street on 7 January and again on 6 May, when he sees 'decided improvement'. She also has a tooth extracted and an abcess treated on 30 December. Charlotte is visited by Dr Bland for her prolapsed uterus on 9 January and he put her 'in a ring' and the next day 'replaced a smaller one'. He visits throughout the year for similar checks, and also treats her piles on 10 July.
Charlotte spends her time writing letters, visiting friends and family, especially Cecil and his wife, and her brothers Brice and Arty. She reads, and carries out some household duties, as well as some hospital visiting, and attends a 'Missionary Guild' meeting on 19 February. Mary also continues to work with committees, and to teach.
Charlotte records the birth of a second daughter, Milicent Jessie Eleanor, to Cecil and Ethel on 28 March and she is baptised by Sidney on 23 April. Sidney visits for Charlotte's birthday on 22 April and she receives a tea kettle from her children 'for 5 o c[lock[ tea'. Mary returns to Horningsham with Sidney on 25 April and he visits again on 27 May, and goes with Mary to the Temple flower show, and to Earls Court exhibition on 30 May.
Holidays are taken in Folkestone in June and in Brighton in August and September. In Folkestone, Charlotte and Bennett travel by lift to the beach, and watch the boat race on 8 June. Charlotte also listens to the Yorks band on 11 June and sits out on the Lees with Mary. Mary and Sidney spend the day in Canterbury on 17 June.
While in Brighton, on 2 September, Charlotte witnesses 'a poor man drowned on the beach, his boat capsizing, knocking him, he was washed on shore'. Charlotte and Mary visit Sidney on 21 September and take a picnic at Cheddar. They visit Wells cathedral on 27 September.
Reading matter includes 'Felicity in France', 'Duke of Cambridge's Life', 'The Living Hope', 'Indian Life', 'The Life of Communion', 'Observer in the Near East' and 'Miss Sewell's Life'.
The diary contains a single loose enclosure: part of an envelope with sums written on |