The Silver Glen

My Lady Erskine was by this time mighty anxious to be back at Alva, not only for the sake of her children, from whom she could never bear to be long parted, but also because she was in expectation soon to be welcoming home Sir John from London. Yielding to the request of Betty, that I should be left at Dysart still some weeks, she took her leave of us, intending first to visit her sister; Margaret, my Lady Baird, in her home at Newbyth, and also to pass some days with the family of Sir Peter Wedderburn at Gosford House. I think I cannot do better than transcribe here two of the letters which she wrote to her husband on her return home. They are full of domestic concerns, and of but little interest to a stranger, but they are loving and dutiful as my lady herself ever was, and show in some degree the cheerful, diligent spirit she commonly displayed.