| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay, Dee Street, Aberdeen, from Mary Brodie, Thornton Loch, regarding helping her brother John to move house, attending her sister Jane in childbirth, disappointed that she produced yet another boy, so busy she wishes she could marry to get out of some of the work, anxious about the cholera outbreak in Aberdeen, encouraging Emma to come with her sons and father and stay with them, rumours of Betsy Richmond's pregnancy, wishes she had daughters to send to Emma's school, the health of the family, excited by reform even though her father has always been a Tory, 6 June 1831 |