| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Aberdeen, from Mary Brodie, Thornton Loch, delighted to hear of Emma's success with her school, her own ill health, death of her niece in the cholera at Musselburgh, her nephew has recovered, its spread around them, dreading its effects in Glasgow, illness of their minister's wife, Walter Berry's health, Mr. Brodie's health, soup kitchen work, no news of Betsy Richmond, sorry that Mrs. Thomson has not been well, asking for Emma's proper address, hoping to see them all fairly soon, 9 February 1832 |