| Description | Letter from the Rev. William Barclay, Auldearn, to his brother Dr. George Barclay, Drum's Lane, Aberdeen, explaining that he is about to walk to Nairn, safe arrival home and preparations for Sacrament, needing a larger lens for his magic lantern, the one John Ewing showed him in Aberdeen would do and would also work for a camera obscura, asking George to buy it for him and to find out more about a book on grinding lenses, hoping that it is a general book on manufacture, arrangements for settling his debts, good fruit coming in the garden and early barley cut within the week, 5 August 1819 |