| Description | Letter to Helen Brodie, Barniemains, Haddington, from Mary Brodie and Emma Berry, Newington, Edinburgh, teasing her about Mary's own acquaintance with a Mr. Dickson in Leith, trying to find out what secret Helen is keeping [possibly that she has received a proposal of marriage], tired from walking between Newington and Leith (where she was tending a sick uncle), beaus at Newington including William Blyth, George Barclay and Paget, reference to Emma being a fool, postscript by Emma asking for the letter back when Helen has finished with it for Emma's 'cabinet of curiosities', 14 January 1815 |