Address book.
Homeopathic medicine case.
He always took this with him on his travels.
Two account books, 1897-1900 and 1900-1902.
Butler destroyed his early account books when he made the Skeleton Diary of his life which is in Vol. III. of his MS. Note-Books. After his death the remaining account books were destroyed except these two.
Books in which Butler used to keep his accounts by double entry. The handwriting during the early years is Butler’s, afterwards it is Alfred’s. Journal, 1895-1902; Cash Book, 1881-1899; Cash Book, 1899-1902; Union Bank Book, 1881-1902; Ledger.
A set of books containing accounts for his published works.
Two of the small note-books which after April 1882 Butler always carried in his pocket and in which he made the notes afterwards copied into his full-size MS. Note-Books.
Before 1882 he used some other kind of pocket note-book. The first one he had of this kind was sent to him by Miss Savage in a letter of 18th April, 1882, from which the following is an extract; the words in square brackets are a note by Butler on Miss Savage’s letter.
“I send you a little present; the leaves tear out, so that when you leave your note-book at the “Food of Health” [I don’t remember ever going to the “Food of Health.” I do not know the place. S. B.] or elsewhere, as you sometimes have done, you will not lose so much, and then you can put the torn leaves into one of the little drawers in your cabinet which is just made for such documents.” (Memoir, I. 373.)