| Description | Letter to George Barclay from his uncle, John Barclay, Calcots, Elgin, asking him to investigate some missing deeds, glad to hear that he has settled down and hoping that that will allow him to visit them, hoping that his continental tour was to his advantage, infrequent correspondence from his friend Aleck who is in a colony with a regiment, pleased to hear that George's brother Charles is settled and that his family is increasing, departure of Charles William to travel for the benefit of his health after too much preaching, his own ill health forced him to give up the Academy the previous year, visit of a married cousin [Bathia] at Inchbroom, but now heading back to Jamaica, news of Edward Dunbar, captain in the 22nd., now married to a woman of fortune, 1 November 1848 |