| Description | Copy letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, glad to hear news of the Leacocks’ safe arrival at Antigua, balancing their books, asking for a blessing on their new partnership, all Cooper’s deliveries have arrived safely, looking forward to delivery of herring from Gothenburg and flax from Dundee, orders for wine, asking for particulars on Mackenzie’s death, account of a man called Orr who owes a lot of money, asking for more lottery tickets, wanting to test a kind of wheat called rivets, difficulty of shipping wine to New York, ports may be open soon, the frigate Levant has captured a brig but could not bring it in in bad weather, glad the Levant is there to protect them, American sympathisers in Madeira talk nonsense, asking for plate to be sent out for the new Corregidor, worried that a certain A.R.L. is pushing himself forward as a man of consequence, various bills, breezy weather preventing loading wine, 12 March 1777 |