| Description | Letter to Emma Berry from Mary Brodie, Scoughall, East Lothian, claiming that she would rather write to Emma's father but writing to Emma is more decorous, her parents have gone to Pitcaithly, her mother has been summoned as witness in the trial of Hutchinson 'our Tantallon robber', her sister Helen has had a baby boy, boat trip to North Berwick, making a handkerchief, reading Russell, Emma has impressed John Brodie, 10 July 1816 |