| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from his brother Alexander at Letterfourie, regarding no progress on estate at Buckie, delivery of seed oats to Banff, asking for pease to be sent to ‘make a substantiall good food for the poor who will have great need for such’, bad weather in the winter, death of Gordon of Glastirum whose eldest daughter, Nansie, is married to James Duff, an Edinburgh painter from Gordon Castle has been at work in Letterfourie, shortage of meal, sorry to hear of George Riddoch’s death, ‘Mrs. G who sits by me rilling a Pirn at almost twelve aclock at night’, 5 March 1783 |