| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, regarding mahogany ready to be sent north, going by McKilligin with some other goods, almost resolved to travel north himself, he would be glad to go with McKilligan ‘as he has a fine new Smack and sails well, Six Gentlemen went down with him last time, he carried none of your riffraff Gentry as the others often do’, news of fighting resuming again in American after the winter, the effect of the war on trade, annoyed at French and Spanish collaboration with the rebels, cold weather in London, 12 June 1777 |