| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Aberdeen, from Betsy Richmond, Oxgangs, Edinburgh, with details of her planned eight-day journey to Aberdeen, asking to not meet anyone there as her time is so short with Emma, so hopes that Sir Robert will have left by then, sewing for Emma's expected baby, dining with George Berry, George Thomson and Nicol, agreeing to bring various items with her, she cannot find a bonnet she likes apart from a Leghorn one, which she knows Emma dislikes, she could not appear as Mrs. Barclay's friend in a Dunstable, Mrs. Bindon is supposed to be on her death bed - 'it would have been good for your Dear Father she had been there 2 years ago', fire at Weddell's shop, 9 July 1817 |