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Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1856 March 20
Identifier(s): text:322439
Description: Anxiety as to war with America. Emma's health and comfort in widowhood. Speaks of Walter and Sir James
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1856-03-20

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1838 June 4
Identifier(s): text:321769
Description: Emma's condition. Anna's happiness. Expect to winter in Edinburgh for Dorothea's health. Snow at St. Andrews, fourteen feet deep. (last winter)
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1838-06-04

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1857 April 15
Identifier(s): text:322440; No. 448
Description: Going home and to visit Tom to see Manchester Exhibition. Aunt Crammond's loss of child. Emma has benefited under good medical advice.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1857-04-15

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1839 January 10
Identifier(s): text:321770
Description: Baby girl born December 15, Emma Elizabeth Maitland Stirling. Little Elizabeth died. Agnes dying of typhus fever. Jane and Willie also ill. Dorothea improved
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1839-01-10

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1854 February 1
Identifier(s): text:322433; No. 423
Description: In reply to a letter of consolation on loss of husband, and plans for immediate future.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1854-02-01

Title: Stirling, Thomas M. to Charles Willing, 1861 November 11
Identifier(s): text:322563; No. 490
Description: Money received, distributed and receipt enclosed. Civil war and interest in cotton. Emma's book.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1861-11-11

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1859 March 2
Identifier(s): text:322442; No. 468
Description: Diptheria (new complaint) not here. Heard best preventive to live on gravelly or sandy soil. Emma visiting Lady Home and Jane. Looking "beyond the grave" to join love ones.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1859-03-02

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1841 January 25
Identifier(s): text:321788; No. 360
Description: Remittance received. Mary, Willie, John and Emma had measles. Desire to go to Jersey for a year. Jane and Mr. Stirling in Manchester.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1841-01-25

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1854 December 5
Identifier(s): text:322437; No. 430
Description: John (son) killed by cannon shot in head. (Crimean War) Going to London, Cheltenham and then to St. Andrews with Emma.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1854-12-05

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth, Thomas M. Stirling, E.M. Stirling, Jane Cook, Anna Maitland to Charles Willing, 1862 August 18
Identifier(s): text:322564; No. 493
Description: Receipt for ground rent. (1861 to 1862)
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1862-08-18

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1845 February 3
Identifier(s): text:321790; No. 371
Description: Moved to Manchester in January. Visited Jane and Anna in Edinburgh. All sick on disagreeable voyage. Anne to return to England - Murray to be away 8 months. News of children, Jane, Anna, Willie and Andrew.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1845-02-03

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1855 March 23
Identifier(s): text:322438; No. 431
Description: Had influenza. News of Sally and Nacy Peters, and Ann. Talks of war and death of the Czar, Willie, Emma's visit to London, and Uncle Walter.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1855-03-23

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1840 October 20
Identifier(s): text:321787; No. 356
Description: Mary has measles. Elizabeth has gall stones and jaundice. James Maitland's marriage to Miss Short and disgust at his marrying soon after Emma's death. News of Andrew, William Stirling, Tom and the Murrays.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1840-10-20

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, November 22
Identifier(s): text:322568; No. 540
Description: November 22. Codicil for will. News of Anne, Emma, and Mackenzie (25 years in India). John afraid of war with France.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 11-22

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1849 February 21
Identifier(s): text:321791; No. 385
Description: Anxiety because remittance hasn't been received on transfer of property. Ann has rheumatic gout and will spend time at the Cape. Tom and the mill in Manchester. Willie at Woolwich. "Gold mania" in California. Emma to play in concert.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1849-02-21

Title: Maitland, J. to Charles Willing, 1840 August 10
Identifier(s): text:321773
Description: Lady Maitland arriving from India. News of the Stirlings and Henry and Anna. Engagement to Miss Short.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1840-08-10

Title: Stirling, Elizabeth to Charles Willing, 1840 January 4
Identifier(s): text:321772
Description: Dorothea's illness. Andrew's career. New neighbor, Mr. Lindsay in Mr. Binney's house.
Subject: Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1840-01-04

Title: Elizabeth Stirling to Charles Willing, 1844 July 1
Identifier(s): text:170019
Description: Accident - overturned carriage fell on Mr. Stirling's foot. Riots in Philadelphia. Major Playfair - improvements in St. Andrews. News of Willie, Anne, Jane and Anna.
Source: Hare-Willing Family Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.104); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.104-ead.xml
Subject: Stirling, Elizabeth, 1819-1895; Willing, Charles, 1806-1887
Date: 1844-07-01