Title | Letter from E. Moore, Frederick Place, Newington, Batts, to her daughter, Mrs Scott, Knockenstob, Dumfries-shire |
Description | Writes at length on general matters: weather, health, acquaintances, her work for a tailor, trouble with a smokey fire, a local murder; with note at end to her grand-daughter Eliza including her copy of verses by Ann Olding 'and written from her mouth as her sister was watching her' on the subject of death, and verses on the death of her two young friends, noting that Ann Olding died at 23, her father Rev John Olding of Deptford preaching her funeral sermon 21 February 1809 |