| Description | She reports on 26 May on the Coleridge-Pooley affair, a trial presided over by Judge Coleridge. She comments at length on the characteristics of rural labourers, their '"serf" quality', their intemperance and profligacy and compares the qualities of the labourer in the Eastern counties with her own district. She also writes about her difficulites with her former employee, Fulcher. Other items mentioned include a possible visit by Lord Elgin. With envelope addressed to Dove Nest with postmarks of 26 & 27 May 1859 |