| Description | Letter to Emma Barclay from Mary Brodie, Thornton Loch, regarding her own better health, she can now, she thinks, look forward to years of life, she hopes to get to church but it is two miles away, so hopes of Aberdeen are very faint, hopes that Emma is also feeling better, marriage of her cousin Mary Bertram to Mr. Manston, a Canary merchant, worries over Miss Thompson who has gone out to America to be married to a Dr. Pringle, a farmer there, but she is townbred and will never manage the work, family news of the Spences, 4 April 1834 |