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Mentions that this is a summary of a longer letter that he has sent via Alice to the 'Westminister'. Regarding his arrival in Bombay, where he was met by E. C. Carter, the American General Secretary of the Indian National Y.M.C.A. and a Cambridge friend, Whitehor; his impression of India; his engagements in Bombay; his journey to Conjeeveram, where he stays with Mrs McLean; H. G. Hogg and his wife; Conjeeveram; his 'boy', James Job; his engagements in Madras; plans for his onward journey.

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.

Details of his journey from Madras to Ceylon and his reception in Ceylon, including his appearance in the local papers. Mentions that Sir Anton Bertram, formerly of Cauis, is Attorney-General in Ceylon. Records a local riddle starting 'Why is Ceylon a good place for a girl to come out to?'.

Asks his parents to keep copies of his letters in the 'Westminister Gazette'. Thanks them for the reviews of 'Poets and Puritans'. Mentions that Alice does not have a chance to collect them for him. Describes the progress of his lecture tour in India. Mentions Mrs Wallace with whom he stayed and arduous train journeys. Writes that the father of an Indian student at St John's garlanded him with a 'mali' of silver and gilt. Refers to Gilbert Robinson.

Describes his journey, including a meeting with a Cambridge physicist, Gray, serving as a lieutenant in the Artillary, and his fellow officer, Mitchell. Disgust at a 'painted lady' on the train. Refers to people he knows upon the boat, including Dr Grosvenor of the W. M. S. in China, Elmhurst, Jennings of Downing. Mentions his cabin mate, a Scots second lieutnant who talks about his sweetheart, Nettie.

Sends news of his wife, daughters and new baby boy. Mentions John Few.

Wishes her a happy birthday and teases her about being unmarried. Mentions Amy. Sends news of his life in Canada. Writes that he is reading Parkman's 'Histories of Canada' and Goldwin Smith's 'Canada and the Canadian Question', and 'Child's garden of verse', which Macnaughton likes but Cappon, the Professor of English, does not. Mentions Hiram Calvin and Geo Macdonnell. Observes that his hair has grown long and will not be cut until he sees Stanley or Knaster. Refers to his edition of Demothenes. Complains of a mistake in the Junior Latin in the 1897-8 calendar, in connection with his assistant, Professor Nicholson and William Bailey. Refers to Robert Ingersoll.

Wishes her happy birthday. Sends news of baby Mary, comparing her to the Calvin's baby.

Describes a Ontario and a Canadian market, which he visited with Professor Knight, in detail. Hopes that there will be a vacancy for Bessie at Moulton College, the Baptist Ladies College in Toronto. Asks if his father would like to visit and give a course at the University. Reports his social progress within the University. Mentions being asked to dinner by Mr Britton MP. Refers to Whitelaw. Assures Dorothy she did the right thing in taking Alice [Few] to see Mrs Smith. Encloses a letter to Alan Jenkins.

Manuscript letter, in which Glover asks whether Carlile remembers coming to hear his address to the Classical Association, and how Sir Frederic Kenyon (1863-1952) moved the vote of thanks? Glover has received a note from him saying that the British Academy would send invitations to anybody Glover wishes to receive them and so he has put down Carlile's name first. Glover will try to arrange meeting beforehand. They may lunch at the Bonington then find somewhere to sit until five o'clock, when the ordeal takes place. Concerning a different matter, Robert was twenty-four last Saturday and had decided to be married on the same day. So Glover and his wife travelled up to Lincoln for the ceremony and had a fine day. Asks whether Carlile will be "putting the Baptist Times to bed" on the 9th or the 8th? Glover is very busy with his final revision of a volume of essays on Greek life and books before it is submitted to Cambridge University Press.