| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay from A. Brown, her cousin, Edinburgh, concerning her recent past, her stay in Glasgow, poor state of the printing business there, consequent move to Ireland which they like, in Edinburgh to claim her property in the Cowgate left her by her grandfather, which is now in a poor state, she had only heard by chance that Mrs. Robertson, who had lived in it, had moved out and died, her acquaintance with Mrs. Berry [presumably George Berry's wife, Betsy Richmond] and her favourite of the Berry children because of her resemblance to Emma, news of her own children, the death of her sister, sadness at the death of Walter Berry, hopes of sending letters from Belfast to Aberdeen, 19 February 1834. [A. Brown is presumably the Amy or Anny Robertson who nursed Emma Barclay at the birth of at least one of her children, and was housekeeper companion to Walter Berry in Edinburgh after the break-up of his second marriage]. |