| Description | Letter from Maggie Gray, Miss Parks' house, Crimond, to Robert Laws, mentioning problems with chimney again; Parks going to the Episcopal chapel at Lonmay for service and her remarks on it; comments on his news of patients' deaths; low numbers at both Shiprow and Crimond Sunday Schools; intending to spend New Year either in Aberdeen or at Marykirk; remarks on post; invitation to the 24th. A.R.V. (Rifle Volunteers) Ball declined; finishing Edith's stockings; tormented by young man in choir; visit to Auld Jul; illness of school house servant; visit to smiddy and sacred music on the piano; snow; complaints of kirk folk not knowing how to behave in chapel; Jessie Park's liver complaint; dancing; family to call at school house; Bissetts' news of Aberdeen choir outing; messages to him from her family. |