| Description | Letter from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie, intending to address the matter of Tochineal but with no time just now, asking for wheat and flour and ideas for other commodities that will sell, including ‘some black shalloons and bays from London and Ireland’, beef and butter, tanned calfskins, blue and green Irish camblets, ham, tea and tongues for the family, recommending doing business with McKenzie in Bishopsgate Street, asking for kitchen tongs, shovel and poker, hay and oats for the horse, ‘a couple of curry combs and a couple of horse brushes’, disappearance of the French privateer and appearance of an English frigate, price of wine, 27 October 1761 |