| Description | Letter from Maggie Gray, The School House, Crimond, to Robert Laws, regarding dress-altering; sympathy for him in his work; his praying with a man who later went on to do a 'horrible deed', and that he is not to blame himself; reading the Glasgow Herald; helping Etta with her work; asking him to burn one of her letters; his happy Sabbath; praise for Dr. Irvine's sermon; Dr. Irvine still not strong and hoping not to have to cancel Communion service; unreliability of the Misses Irvine at Sunday School; visit of Mr. McHardy, schoolmaster at Newmachar, who had been preaching at Kinmund; his disagreements with his School Board and his retirement to his late brother's farm near Cupar; visit to Auld Jul and her illness; her enthusiasm for the Revival; asking if Robert knows Mr. Leask - fellow graduate?; Bella's falling out with some man; Mrs. Robertson's continued recovery; Etta's ill health; busy classroom. |