| Description | Letter from Emma Berry, Edinburgh, to Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, saying that she should be at church but is not yet well enough, reading, his own busy life, using comic bread seals, the mystery of the author of Waverley, Williamina Grant's teasing on the subject, news of friends, William Blyth's departure for Birmingham, as a result of a bitter quarrel in the family, illness in the family of Dr. Thomson, the Brodies at Pitcaithly, 21 July 1816 |