| Description | Letter from Emma Berry, Edinburgh, to Dr. George Barclay, Drum's Lane, Aberdeen, pleasant spending bad weather indoors with good company and good books, visit from Helen Brodie and plans to go back to Scoughall with the Brodies, account of visit from Mrs. Milne, comments on her behaviour, reading the Lord of the Isles, reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall, pleased to have missed the Assembly, cross that his visit to Edinburgh might have prevented his visit to his parents at Knockleith, 28 January 1815 |