Addressed to "Mr. Thomas Carlyle / 35 Bristo Street / Edinburgh."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
Telling him that their farm is doing well this year; commenting on a bad cold and a cough he had this winter; remarking that he finds "old age creeping on [him] apace"; noting that Thomas's mother has been baking cakes; mentioning Thomas's suggestion that his landlady wash his clothes for him, and adding that Thomas's mother would prefer it if he would continue to send his clothes home for washing, especially because "now the days is longer and the hedges will be cleaner"; informing him that his sisters, Mary and Jane, are at school and "doing very well."