William Robertson appears to have travelled often, leaving Eliza home with the servants and children. Her father, John Marsh, was a frequent visitor, as was her brother Daniel. She corresponded with her sisters, Sarah and Margaret, who seem to have lived nearby. After January 1850, there is a four-year gap in entries, Robertson returning to her journal on 5 November 1854. During this interval her son William, two months old in November 1849, had died, as had her sister Margaret, while Eliza had given birth to two sons, George and Johnny.
Entries continue to detail household activities and production.
Robertson also wrote of preparations for her new baby, primarily the making of baby clothes. Shortly after the birth of Mary Avery in July 1855, Robertson ceased to write in her journal, picking up her pen once again in March 1856. Her final entry is dated 26 May 1856. Inserted in the diary were six letters, four dated 1872 from Eliza to, one of these to a sister and the other three to a niece, and two undated letters to a sister, probaby also from Eliza. Topics include items needed for Eliza's dining room, a Mardi Gras ball, and a fever epidemic, as well as family and local news.