| Description | Letter from Emma Berry, Edinburgh, to Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, defending her lack of letters by explaining that she has become a lady visitor at a Lancastrian school, reading Russell's Modern Europe with Mary Brodie, having to be at her father's disposal in the afternoons, new neighbours and their entertainment (backgammon and chess), the spring will see her father take an interest in the garden again, the problems of George Berry and the family business, plan to visit Scoughall, Archibald Alison's sermons, other reading, gossip about Miss Maclean, a famous beauty, cross with the Richmonds apart from Betsy, February 1816 |