| Description | Letter to James Gordon, London, from his brother Alexander, Madeira, regarding new orders for wine and quality of what is available, difficulty in getting wine from some parts, asking for a sword to be sent out for someone – ‘a Silver hilted sword, boat shell fashioned with a Spanish Tuck blade’, encouraging him to get more orders, particularly from the West Indies if he can, shipping movements, he will have to be patient waiting for wheat, short of goods to make money on, asking for commodities that can ‘soon reduced to cash which we shall endeavour at here without standing much more than our neighbours on the Prig penny’, orders for cloth, purchases of wine from estates, looking for a good friend to forward their business in Antigua, asking for rye, 2 February 1761 |