WEDNESDAY 2nd MAY 1888

Hurrah!! I have received a reply from the Publisher, Invention, regarding the safety pin and he says that he is decidedly of the opinion that the same is a valuable invention. He encloses a printed form for me to fill up to obtain provisional protection and send remittance 3 pounds 8 shillings. I shall do so at once.

Surely own luck must be turning. We have only bad luck since we married 7 years ago or more. Today, two great starts have been made by Bert and I. I start to obtain provisional protection for my Rubber safety pin whilst Bert has her first lesson in Scientific dress cutting.