| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Aberdeen, from Walter Berry, her father, Edinburgh, regarding his own birthday, complaining of the vicissitudes of his life, his happiness now, good social life though missing William Blyth, the necessity of returning all the social invitations they received on their marriage, his new wife's relatives' disappointment in losing her property, further arrangements to send Emma's things to Aberdeen, comments on the Barclay family marriages, Emma's better health, reference to her wig, theft of his desk from the house, Betsy Richmond's rheumatism, recovery of his desk, complaint that he is nearly out of whisky and the cask Emma left him sealed is half drawn off, 30 December 1816 |