| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Aberdeen, from Jane Berry, her stepmother, Edinburgh, glad that Emma approves of her and happy to have become Walter Berry's wife, she now considers Emma her own child, happy that Emma is feeling better, regretting that she has not yet met George Barclay, sorry that they could not spend Christmas together, assuring Emma that her apology about the state of the house was unnecessary, but that the servants are not all that she could wish, their rearrangements at the house, mention of Emma's various commissions from Edinburgh, rheumatism afflicting both Betsy Richmond and her mother, busy social life and plans for Walter's birthday, 22 December 1816 |