| Description | Letter from Amelia Nyasa Laws, Bergstrasse 33, Dresden, Germany, to her relatives, thanking Aunt Amy for her letter and news of the mission meetings in Edinburgh; good sermon preached at Kreuzkirche; wish to go to the Reformed Church but it is very cold and they need to wait for warmer weather; Oscar's curiosity [Uncle's servant] over parcel of gloves from Aunt and Amelia; Maria the maid's impatience with Oscar; Oscar tricking her into thinking that he was a jewel-thief; death of Mr. Blatchford, and of the Lorimers' eldest son through a gunshot wound, possibly on the borders of India and Persia; Mary Harper is in Rome, returned from Burma with enteric fever; she has been presented to Queen Elena; sewing at home for spring wardrobe. |