Dear Madam,

I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long for an answer about Lady Beatrix, but first I was unhinged by a long influenza, and then a great Sorrow has engrossed me, and left me little time for letter writing.

I like the journal very much in its gentle tone_

I only think in revising it, it will need a little condensing - and one or two things struck me. I do not think Scots ... continue reading