| Description | Letter from Emma Berry, Edinburgh, to Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, telling him that her brother George has arrived safely back in England from France, landing at Rye, visit to Scoughall where Mary was ill, visits from Williamina Grant and Betsy Richmond, and Paget, who discusses literature with her, comments on Byron, writings on childhood, efforts to read Ariosto's Orlando, good idea of George's to correspond with his friend John Murray in French, mentions of Guy Mannering, the Antiquarian, and the mystery of their authorship, return of William Blyth from Ireland and his taking a cottage in Newington, quarrels in the Blyth family, her father was going to take her to Glasgow to see Keene at the theatre, private concert with her old music teacher, 28 March 1815 |