| Description | Envelope inscribed in red biro: ‘Interesting document showing how James Gordon started in Wine business in Madeira; alas incomplete’, containing ‘State of the Case betwixt James Gordon of Madeira and his partner William Halloran late of London’, explaining how the business started in 1730 when Halloran took Gordon to his business in Madeira, Da Costa Campos & Halloran; Halloran found his partner had been indolent in his absence, and left Gordon behind to tidy matters when he returned to London. Account goes on to detail business arrangements between Halloran and Gordon. N.d., post 1757 |