| Description | Letters from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie, trying not to draw on him for any expenditure, asking for news and case with Halloran’s heirs, 2 August 1761; enclosing ship list showing they are in no want of Irish provisions, demand for wines in Dublin, arrival of a French privateer fresh from a fight with an English ship, mention of another ship, the Bainbridge, taken by the privateer, asking for rice, corn, staves and pork from America if convenient, arrival of the Amazon Master of War with news of Captain Leslie’s ship, asking him to go to see if the wines have arrived safely, asking for more wheat, and for quills, 18 August 1761, with wrapper |