| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, sending copies of Madeira letters, complaining at price of insurance, methods of disguising British cargoes so that they are less likely to be taken, reference to a quarrel with Sir William Dunbar, wishing he were back in Letterfourie, neither at war nor peace with France, James Hamilton the saddler is looking for cash, sending him his ‘frock and waistcoat of second mourning’, death of James Syme, 9 April 1778 |