| Description | Letter from Amelia Nyasa Laws, Rome, to her relatives, regarding emptying a credenza and hiding in it what belongs to Aunt and should not be valued, visit from the Bentons, arrangements for church accounts, the Bentons are to visit America for several months, the Old England business has been sold to a firm in Milan, a profit to the French proprietors, visit by Mr. Street and Mr. Webster who inspected the books and the manse, hurt by the brusque way they dismissed Uncle's books, fight to see that Hale had his position as deacon, as Gibson wanted to take over everything, Hale is the only one who has been really considerate of their feelings and desires, 'Ministers seem to go through life in a very slipshod way', congregational meeting to establish requirements in a new minister, Gibson wants 'a malleable man'. |