| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Aberdeen, from Walter Berry, Newington, enclosing a letter from Mary Brodie and sending both by George Imlach, his doubts that Mary's letter is sincere, aborted plans to visit on the way to Speymouth to buy timber, instead intends to finish his house in Leith, the plasterers have mixed their mortar with sea sand which will not dry till spring, description of the dimensions of the house, Betsy Richmond's uncle John is dying, the neighbours he will miss in Newington, enclosing a letter from Aunt Pinnock, complaints of a relative, Mrs. Rawlins, wearing her hair in papilottes, 15 September 1818 |