| Description | Letter from Maggie Gray, Miss Parks' house, Crimond, to Robert Laws, asking for news of his most poorly patients; confusion over letter to Milnes; enquiring after his parents; correspondence with family; sister knitting stockings for marriage; the story behind sending him a lock of her hair; Dr. Irvine's sermon so good she forgot his complaints about her; Edith singing to her; improvements at work; avoiding an evening at the school house because other guests were there; suffering slight cold; now using the cane 'to break in ... the boys'; invitations to the school house; making white stockings for Edith; sore throat preventing her from singing; more praise for Dr. Irvine's sermons; deaths in and unhealthiness of parish caused by adjacent bog and loch; visit to Auld Jul; failure of Dr. Irvine to visit the poor; not presently teaching the Sabbath School; Robertsons urging toddy for her throat; trying to judge Robert's current mood by staring at his photograph; praying for those lacking shelter in a storm; schoolchildren undaunted by it; losing her hat in the wind; Bella making a cap for him from black velvet; news of Ship Sunday School; thanking for anthems. |