| Description | Letter from Amelia Nyasa Laws, Bergstrasse 33, Dresden, Germany, to her relatives, regarding Uncle's improving health and taking a lecture; doctor has limited his outdoor work and visitors to the house; Mr. Gibson's inability to arrange social events for people under forty; Uncle's inability, too; amusing account of some difficult social events in the past; news from Jessie Gray at home in Aberdeen; beautiful snowstorm in Dresden leading to sleighing and tobogganing; description of children's activities in the streets; thaw, but not before New Year service, though it was well attended; aunt enjoying the weather; short-cut to a snowman; Herr Pfannstiehl forgetting her organ lesson after a heavy night drinking beer; lessons disrupted by their removal from the Reichstrasse; his daughter home for the holidays but though nice is dissatisfied at home; good organ lesson eventually, with a Bach fugue. |