Covering letter to F.E. Weiss sent with letters from George Meredith.

Declining an invitation to dine with the Westminster Press Directors.

Thanks for congratulations on Golden Wedding.

Concerning happy memories and recommending Robin Hodgkins' book on the early Anglo-Saxons.

Concerning a recent Botanical Dinner at Newcastle and upcoming lecture series in Austria.

Concerning receipt of copies of Robert Spence Watson's letters from [Sergey Mikhaylovich] 'Stepniak' [Stepnyak-Kravchinsky] (co-founder with RSW of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom and the periodical 'Free Russia'), [Feliks Vadimovich] Volkhovsky [Russian revolutionaries] and Mr. [George] Kennan (American explorer)'s secretary. Taratuta writing a book about Stepniak.

Transcript of conversation between Mabel Weiss (grand daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Spence Watson, daughter of Evelyn Spence Watson and Ernest Weiss) and Ann Craven. Concerning family reminiscences/anecdotes. Including memories of Bensham Grove, Elizabeth Spence Watson's funeral, Nansen's visitis to Bensham Grove, the first meeting of Evelyn SW and FE Weiss while skiing, unorthodox Quakerism, ESW's abstinence, Evelyn SW's Temperance activity, Evelyn SW and FEW's attendance at theatre, Prince Kroptkin's imprisonment in St. Petersburg and escape, Elizabeth SW's WWI pacifism - she protects a German butcher in Newcastle or Gateshead, RSW nearly shot as a spy when working for the Friends Relief Service during the Franco Prussian War.