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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
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Ref NoMS 3290/13/6
TitleLetter from Maggie Laws, Kondowe, to her daughter, Amelia Nyasa Laws
Date7 September 1895
Extent2 sheets
DescriptionLetter from Maggie Laws, Kondowe, to her daughter, Amelia Nyasa Laws, regarding delays in paying workers and mending the cook's jacket, young man enough recovered from illness to beg, feeding the pigs, pleasures of livestock, beautiful view, building house at lakeside for receiving goods and emergency accommodation when meeting the steamer at Florence Bay, lonely in the house but for the rats, which are literary and musical, their unusual diet, problems with ants or worms in the potatoes, illness of father, current work, including sewing twill trousers for boys, good dairy produce at present so churning is necessary, beautiful flowers at present, news of dogs, lions nearby.
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