| Description | Letter from Maggie Gray, Miss Parks' house, Crimond, to Robert Laws, mentioning Robertson being particularly watchful as she teaches; tea at school house; mending a book of nursery rhymes; closeness with Robertson family; teaching both Anne and Christina Park; Robertson criticising her teaching of sewing and remarking that she had not been a pupil-teacher; he mentioning that pupils would leave because she could not teach music; dealing with a boy hit by a stone; Robertson's inability to deal with the matter; bundle of letters arriving for her; Robertson beginning to trust her again and giving her older boys to teach; keeping house for the Parks while they saw to the threshing of their corn (being done by machine which went round eight crofts in a day); dance afterwards; Parks making a wedding dress; gossip about enlarging the school; music from a flutina and a concertina; pleasant evening at school house. First page possibly missing. |