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Forwarding a parcel. The departure of a lodger and hopes for a replacement. Scones.

Grace Webster backs down (reluctantly) on a claim to Langley Compensation Money.

Unsigned letter from The Tait (which had published a detailed review of Ingliston in May 1840), turning down another of GW's works for review.

Deals with family matters and matters of health, and raises the question of how the Presbyterians celebrate the sacrament.

Blathwaite patches up his relationship with GW, talks about plans for moving house and denounces a false rumour that the President steamship, lost at sea, was safe.  Lord Fitzroy Lennox, son of the Duke of Richmond,was among the passengers.

Unsigned letter acknowledging [James] Buchanan's receipt of a book from Miss Webster. Buchanan's identity is ascertained from the York Place address; see, e.g., The Miscellany of the Woodrow Society, p. 644, which places him at that address.

Moncrieff thanks GW for the book she has sent him

Discusses practical details of a work by GW. The reference to the sabbath indicates it was GW's edition of Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety, which devotes a chapter to this subject. Mentions several other people, including Mr Nasmyth (perhaps James…

Grace Webster upbraids her sister Eliza for tricking her into being admitted to the Morningside lunatic asylum and demands to be freed. (The hospital records show she remained there until July 16, 1856, her second admission of five.) She laments the…

"Tanty" may well be Grace Webster, as she is addressed as Tanty in a number of letters to her, or it may be a general name for an aunt. Tanty has paid a surprise visit to the Gillespies. Mr. Gillespie is away but wil return soon. The letter appears…