| Description | Letter from Maggie Laws, Livingstonia, to her daughter, Amelia Nyasa Laws, regarding an orchid, with description, other plants and gardening, gift of a kitten for the kitchen to catch rats, visit from guineafowl and crested crane, thanks for Christmas cards and photographs, too many steamers on the Shire rivers for her to know the names of all of them, missing Uncle James and Aunt Amy, hoping they will be able to continue a yearly visit home, no intention of their taking furlough this year, eager to work on while they are healthy, glad she is being taught French by a Frenchman, music and elocution lessons, Christmas visit to a farm, Miss Sarah's gift of eggs, visit of Mr. Krogan, of Irish extraction, on his way to Cairo, he has shot 10 lions in Rhodesia, Christmas greetings, and encouraging her to be generous. |