Fordfield. Personal: still receives visits from Willie Searle - 'I can't spend half an hour alone with Willie without its going to my head'; renewed bouts of illness. Children: A+A meet Constantine - 'rather a bore'; Agatha wishes to go to Girton in 1928 - AT feels she should wait; A+A attend dances and balls; Alethea gives a speech in French at the French Society - first woman ever asked to open a debate; Agatha visits the theatre and cinema fairly regularly; Agatha is offered a Girton scholarship - discussions re Tripos options etc; summer cycle rides and walks, chiefly with Agatha; Alethea to stay at Girton for a 4th year to study Economics; pride in A+A expressed frequently, but particularly in Alethea; Alethea travels to Italy for the summer; various admirers - John Wedgwood in particular - wishes to marry Alethea in due course; Dec 1928 - Alethea to a 'Social Study' week in London. Family: visits to Merton House; niece Veronica has an operation on her ears; general news of both brothers' families; cross with father for being a selfish invalid; Dec 1928 - Phyllis is expecting another baby. Visitors and those visited include Mrs Kapitza; Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova; Nadja; Miss Thomas and Miss Major [Girton]; Miss Allan of Homerton; Willie Searle; Willie Lindsay [childhood friend]. Places visited include Folkestone (holiday in March 1928), London (for research), and Letchworth (holiday in summer 1928). Activities include preparing lectures on Stephen Grellet; party at Westminster College as a chaperone; annual meeting of the Coffee Palace Co as father's proxy; teaching extension Summer School again; giving Italian and French lessons; hearing Arthur Quiller-Couch lecture; accepting requests to lecture on Buddhism to the Friends at Letchworth and on Modern Poetry at the Settlement [?]. Writing: begins a book on Stephen Grellet and William Allen; Sep. 1928 - begins a novel 'about England three hundred years hence' [Concrete]; Hutchinson accept 'The Young Milliner'; Lowther Clarke will recommend 'Letters to a Stranger' to SPCK for publication. Religion: attends church at St Columba's; guardian angel occasionally draws her 'aside to solitude and thought' in spite of a busy life in the world; occasional visions and spiritual experiences. Pasted in at back: press clipping showing Constantine, also 10 photographs including Alethea, Agatha, Helen Megaw, John Wedgwood, Summer School Class, Aunt Laura, and Fordfield 1927.