| Description | Letter from Dr. George Barclay, Aberdeen, to Emma Berry, Edinburgh, wishing her a happy new year, reaction to news that George Berry has lost his job in London, introduction of Mrs. Thomson, mother of his late student and sister of Professor Glennie, and his best friend in Aberdeen, arrival of his brother-in-law Mr. Peter to stay, Dr. Skene's acquisition of a body from London for dissection, starting work at the Infirmary, reading Simpson's account of Waterloo and Chalmers on the evidences of the Christian faith, mention of Dr. John Gordon in Edinburgh, reading Alison's sermons and the Edinburgh Review, criticism of Wordsworth's poetry, 3 January 1816 |