Description | Letters of Jean, Dowager Countess of Fife, Rothiemay (152, 160), Housedal[e] (Echt, Aberdeenshire) (153), Edinburgh (154-159), to Arthur Duff, M.P., discussing affairs of family, houshold and friends, local and social activities, with reference inter alia to: her sudden illness when at Housedale (160), a visit from a Russian princess to Edinburgh, rumoured to have been banished by the Empress (155), funeral of Edinburgh's Lord Provost (157), Severe snowstorm making travel north impossible (157-160) and visit of Sir Archibald and Lady Grant to London (160). |