| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Skene Terrace, Aberdeen, from Mary Hill, St. Andrews, regarding their inexplicable lack of communication, hearing news of each other through Mrs. Glennie, sorry that she and her sister Lindsay had been unable to visit Aberdeen, if Emma will not have her as a guest next summer she will stay with a certain friend in Silver Street, hoping that Mrs. Thomson is now settled for life, expects that no school will do well this winter, naming her only three boarders, the day school is doing better, pity for Mrs. Cowan who has similar difficulties and a lazy husband to keep, she has also had a gig accident and is seriously ill, teaching music, news of her sisters, 29 October 1828
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