Letter from Maria Tunno, Edinburgh, to Charlotte Susannah Raikes, 1819 November 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing from Edinburgh to share that she is once again reunited with her mother and will be settled there for at least three months, and commenting on the "sad blank" in their domestic circle; continuing to grieve the death of her father and struggling to stay in the present, but feeling hopeful that a religious view of their current state will help her return to health; asking after Charles; thanking her for the letter that she received in Aberdeen; catching her up on their tour; Rosa found Miss Coleridge and Miss Southey "pleasant companions of her own age" even though, Maria suspects, their education has been "poetically left to nature"; commenting on their trip to John O'Groats; describing the "original road" they took, and how they encountered hedges, ditches, rivers, and bogs; describing the search for the humble mansion of Jack O'Fourpence, but not a stone remained to tell them where it was; noting that she and Rosa picked up shells, and that the roads in the Highlands are better than any that England can boast; commenting on the health and independence of the Mountaineers; confessing her "unfeminine admiration" of barefeet and uncovered heads; describing their travels and the beauties they have seen and the paths they have traveled; commenting on her pleasure at being present at a visit Mr. Chalmers made to Mr. Francis; noting that many people have offered to make introductory epistles, even to Sir Walter Scott, but due to hygiene they cannot encounter general society. Postscript at bottom of page four references Sir Walter Scott's poem, "The Lady of the Lake," and she says she will tell Charlotte and Caroline about St. Fillan's Spring.