| Content Description | Describes election party for 350 held in the new house; the response she and Duncan McLaren had to their defeat; remarks that nurse is leaving; requires a governess and a housekeeper, the latter to give her more time for children; notes that John [McLaren] has 'English Cholera' and Grant [McLaren] is also ill, though Duncan [McLaren Jr] has returned to school; describes John and M[argaret] E[lizabeth] Bright's visit and her trip to Perth with them, in particular, her reaction to Margaret Elizabeth. |