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Tyrrellswood, West Horsley, Surrey - Is visiting her cousin Dora, who is the daughter of Sir Henry Roscoe; has heard from Miss Clergue who seems happy in Montreal; had a charming letter from John Masefield about her poems.

2 Tobernea Terrace, Seapoint, Dublin. - Her husband Walter Noel Hartley has applied for the Chair of Chemistry at South Kensington; now fears Sir Henry Roscoe will give it to his friend Odling; Roscoe is using radical influence of Thomas Bayley Potter and Professor Huxley to further his ends; quotes Roscoe's refutation of promotion on merit; they will be ruined if the Nationalists and Jesuits manage to close the Dublin College of Science; will Houghton intercede with Lord Carlingford on her husband's behalf? Lady Cloncurry and Miss [Emily?] Lawless; her own current books: 'I have a novel creeping on - something in the style of Miss Ferrand'.

Roscoe was Thomson's teacher at Owen's College, Manchester.