Description | Letter from Maggie Gray, The School House, Crimond, to Robert Laws, regarding opportunity to write; strong winds outside; boy blown into ditch; household storm caused by Mr. Robertson and his dinner; its effect on the teaching timetable; Mrs. Robertson's patience with him; the pressure of his work and writing to her of it; Medical Faculty results in the Banffshire newspaper; handwriting; trying to clarify the situation regarding Mr. Rutherford; helping Etta with her French and knitting while writing; trying to write before breakfast but detected by Etta; difficulty in disciplining Etta but an arrangement made with her; Amy's fourteenth birthday; cold morning. |