| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Grant of Tochineal, Cullen, concerning the distress of the Duffs, currently in ‘a small habitation’, trying to find out more from Lady Ballindalloch, sending money to Mrs Duff to support her illness, sorry Gordon will not be coming to Scotland, no desire to give his brother a tack without Gordon’s approval, Logie’s continued story of why he need pay no rent on the Shank, Logie and Gordon’s sister interfered in the matter of Alexander Dawson, an old man in Letterfourie, and annoyed Grant, asking him to write to Logie and sort matters out, hoping to evict Alexander Geddes in Corriedown, ‘an indolent, never do well fellow’, business with Innes of Muiryfold, worried about his son Tam whom he has refused to help until he sees some change in him, ‘Your brother Alexander’s daughter is now come to be a woman, and by all I can see has appearance to be a very good girl, she has got all the private school here can afford, is in the best boarding house upon the place but staying her longer here is but loosing time and wish therefore you would think of taking her up to London and breeding her to some business’, 12 July 1761 |