| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Grant of Tochineal, Cullen, regarding news of John Duff setting up as a notary and going to Edinburgh with Lady Ballindalloch, it will bring in some money ‘if he does not learn to tipple, as most of Country transactions are done in publick houses’, if he is also a messenger it will pay well, asking for a tack for his brother of Badenshellie during his incumbency at Rathven, Logie and his wife are still arguing about the rent on the Shank, financial arrangements with Innes of Muiryfold, he has sent Alexander’s daughter to Banff, ‘If you was to purchase the Estate of Buckie and give John Gordon one thousand pounds sterling more than it cost him, the Earl of Findlater would take of the lands of Freuchie and pay for the same in the like manner as you do for the rest’, 6 September 1761 |