| Description | Bundle of copy letters, with wrapper, from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie: giving list of bills and no news, trying not to draw more bills, sales of flour, Joachim’s problems and Laur. Pinto’s age, plans to replace one or the other [increasing number of Portuguese words used], 23 May 1761; thanking for his of March to May, arrangement for a ship heading to London via Guernsey, Rogers’ suffering from smallpox prevented him doing any business, hoping for more flour, altercation with Mr Pringle regarding price of wine, 20 June 1761 [two copies]; regarding bills, various deliveries and sales, dispute over a misunderstanding, advising particular care for specific orders for good customers who pay promptly, asking for wheat and flour, and sending onions, 27 July 1761; sale of a copper and dealings with a spyglass, urging care over quality of goods sent, mention of paying share in the Factory House: ‘were you to peruse the many extravagant Charges on this monument of folly, you would really be surpriz’d’, giving account of dealings with Mr Loughnan and asking for approval, ‘we are without any [flour] and as the Sally frigate is probably taken God knows when we may have it’, availability and price of various commodities, ‘I sent you … a fine dog that will do for Letterfury’, 30 July 1761; trying not to draw on him for any expenditure, asking for news and case with Halloran’s heirs, list of bills, Ayres Fettes sends a spyglass to be mended, setting up indenture for James Duff, 2 August 1761. With wrapper |