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Sends his sympathies about the death of the Kossuth Robinsons' three sons. Describes his and Mabel's stay with E. C. Carter. Reflects on his tiredness and wish to return to England and the value of work to busy the mind. Worries about national intolerance in England caused by War. Refers to William Carey. Mentions Aunt Margaret and Uncle Hunter. Gives contact addresses for his onward journey.

Details his onward journey. Regrets the sinking by submarines of the Persia. Discusses the War. Describes his visit to the poet Rabindranath Tagore. Mentions C. F. Andrews, Anderson and Lord Carmichael. Narrates his conversation with a Hindu about the goddess Kali.

Congratulates them on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Details the progress of his lectures in Madras. Writes about dining with John Sinclair, first Baron Pentland. Plans his onward journey, including a stay with the son of Andrew Fraser in Kandy.

Congratulations on Mary's Somerville scholarship. Refers to the reportage of the Golden Wedding Anniversary in the 'Western Daily Press'. Describes his time in Rangoon and his plans to travel on to Kodaikanal where he will stay with Waller, the Bishop of Tinnevelly.

Reports that his ship is delayed and he will be late for the conference at Kodaikanal. Mentions the bowl he was given by the American Baptist Mission at Maymyo. Believes that the quantity of drinking in Rangoon would have made it an unsuitable place for Randal.

Describes his journey from Kodaikanal to Bangalore. Reports that there is a summer school at Bangalore with Mary and G. A. Leonard, J. H. Moulton, C. F. Angus, K. J. Saunders, R. D. Whitehorn, L. K. Elmhirst, Harold Wills and F. Whittaker. Plans his onward journey. Mentions a trip in Mr Chaundy's car, on which he saw men fire-walking outside a temple. Believes that it was H. C. Carter who leaked his plans to go to America. Expresses shock at 'the way the British Government and the tribunals have struck at conscience and liberty'.

Describes his journey to Calcutta. Discusses Annie Besant who shared his train. Mentions his walk with Kennedy to see clay idols made.

Describes his journey to Ranchi and Bishop Westcott with whom he is staying. Reports that he met the Judge son of Macpherson who looks after luggage at Newtonmore. Writes that he is to stay a weekend in Calcutta with Herbert Anderson and then depart for Simla.

Describes the failure of a lecture that he and Mr P. A. Goold attempted to give to the soldiers at the Jutogh Barracks near Simla. Asks them to preserve his poetry published in the 'Westminister' as well as the 'Rangoon Times'. Details his plans to travel to Hoshangabad and stay with Jack Hoyland, then travel on to Poona. Mentions his meeting with J. H. Towle, principal of the Mohammedan College at Aligarh, and his wife, Rosie Heelas, who knew Bessie at Mrs Badock's in Bristol. Mentions Maggie Heelas, also married to a man in India. Complains about muslims he has met or heard of. Sends news of C. F. Angus, brother Christopher and his cousin Harold. Describes Simla and the surrounding countryside. Describes dinner with G. T. Walker, a meteorologist who attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

Sends news of his sightseeing activities in Venice. Plans to travel on to Smyrna.