Scope and Contents This was DH’s first full academic year, and the letters of this period are markedly more concerned with lectures, reading and essays. DH gives many detailed descriptions of her lecture timetable and the various papers for which she is preparing, as well frequent comments on her lecturers and tutors. She occasionally expresses frustration at the lack of guidance and her slow progress. She notes the different attitudes exhibited by the male undergraduates, who cut lectures and fail to submit...