| Description | 4 June, 1885. Isabel Duncan in Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana. Announces arrival there on 17 May after 40 days' passage and activities since; had been in contact by letter with Andrew Craigen who had been at school with her brother Andrew but they had not met; he is the owner of great estates in the neighbourhood; mentions celebrations held on 29 May to mark the Queen's birthday; expects to leave on the 10 in ballast for Barbados; brothe Andrew had apprently died there when overseer of nearby suagr plantation of Springhall and had been buried in churchyard at Mahaica |