During the winter of 1883, whilst her husband was in Ceylon, she worked on a series of memoirs of her childhood home, with a view to publishing them under the title An Emigrant's Notebook, but this plan was abandoned.
No inverno de 1883, mentres o seu marido estaba en Ceilán, traballou nunha serie de memorias do seu fogar de infancia, coa intención de publicalas baixo o título An Emigrant's Notebook, pero finalmente abandonou este plan.