| Content Description | Details her difficulties in raising her stepchildren; favours sons while trying to treat all equally; describes her children briefly; notes their illnesses, especially [Charles Benjamin McLaren]; notes John Bright's illness has changed him from a 'young man'; refers to his problems with his voice; recalls looking after the deaf Mrs Courtauld when she was taken ill in Edinburgh; notes that her brother's wife [Margaret Elizabeth Bright] is expected to be confined next month, and that she already has six children.
Agrees that the correspondent must value [her] friendship with 'Lady Shelly' to cooperate on the 'Poet's life'; expresses her annoyance that [Duncan] McLaren stated that she only stands for 'women's rights in theory'.
Brief annotations by H[elen] P[riscilla] R[abagliati, née McLaren]; incomplete. |