| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, with shipping news, thanking him for ordering a mixed cargo from Hamburg, comparative prices with America still unable to trade, trading relations in Europe, thanking for commissions delivered including a box of instruments for the Governor’s nephew, leakage in a cask due to woodworm, sorry to hear about Peddie’s loss, a customer who always complains while ordering more wine, his nicer brother, loss of a ship, duties decided, anxiety of a fellow merchant who has prepared a cargo of wine for a ship that has not yet appeared and may have gone past, local financial issues and political unrest, men thought guilty of writing anti-government lampoons are to be sent to Lisbon, this will delay the ship, 18 September 1776; delay to French ship, anxious about the Somerset which may have been attacked by an American privateer off Portugal, arrival of a Spanish snow, fine weather, the Governor is pleased with his boots but they are a little too wide, 23 September 1776 |