| Description | Letter from Emma Berry, Edinburgh, to Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, regarding her father's business failures, the distressed state of trade in the country, George Berry leaving his situation with John Morrice in London through insolence, she herself has been lonely as all her friends are otherwise engaged, William Blyth can give him information about Mr. Richmond's affairs, reading history, reading Molière, Simpson's visit to the field of Waterloo, the character of the author, Williamina Grant knows who wrote Waverley as she was staying with the Ballantynes, but Emma will not allow her to tell her, John Grant has had yellow fever but has recovered, Paget's experiments with tea drinking, plans for George Berry to go into his father's business, her father's low spirits, 15 December 1815 |