| Description | Letter to Emma Berry, Edinburgh, from Mary Brodie, Scoughall, East Lothian, regarding her journey through heavy snow, death of her aunt, 'Helen and I have been employed a great part of the day in ripping up the seams of our pelisses in order to send them to Haddington to be dyed black', asking Emma to procure sable fur trim for them, asking her also to buy a red morocco work box as a present, offering to send a pig for Williamina, encountering a friend at a dance, with much teasing, 1 February 1815 |