| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Aberdeen, from Walter Berry, her father, Edinburgh, thanking her for her sympathetic letter, trying to keep himself busy, making enquiries for somewhere to house his wife 'to promote her penitence and reformation', their current arrangements, Mrs. Bindon is blaming Walter, legal arrangements, George Berry's good behaviour, disposal of the grand piano, direction to say that the cause of the marriage breakdown was insanity, not alcoholism, 27 January 1817 |