| Description | Letter from Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, to Emma Berry, Edinburgh, regarding bad weather, his mother's visit, his mother and Mrs. Thomson inspecting his house and deciding on alterations, description of the house, illness of Dr. Selby, his own prospects if Selby dies, no news of the Chaters in London, news of his friends the Cowies in London, reading Dryden, Byron, and the problems of writing drama when in clerical orders, no news yet of The Antiquary, 15 May 1816 |