| Description | Papers relating to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie: bundle of various letters and receipts, 1881 ‘No private letters, all about Buckie and Business’: Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Rev Gordon J. Donald, Rathven, with account for his stipend, 1 March 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Rev Gordon J. Donald, Rathven, apologising for error in his account, 5 March 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Rev Gordon J Donald, Rathven, regarding stipend, 8 March 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Rev Gordon J Donald, Rathven, regarding stipend, 14 March 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding summons for jury service, 29 March 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares and investing, 30 March 1881, enclosing two telegrams Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding investment, 31 March 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding investment in Prairie Cattle Company, 2 April 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding account balances, 6 April 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, to cover bank statements, 7 April 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding effect on street of planned new properties, 7 April 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding investments, 9 April 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding factorship of Letterfourie and Nether Buckie, with enclosed letter regarding payments on comparable factorships, 12 April 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, arguing the benefits of his factorship, 16 April 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding G. Robertson and gas, 18 April 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding gasworks, with enclosure, 17 April 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding factorship and explaining the situation to Alexander Mair, 30 April 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding gasworks and accident to his accountant, 3 May 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding credit from gasworks, 3 May 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding misunderstanding over railway negotiations, 4 May 1881, with copy reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding deposit in current account, 17 May 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding Prairie Company and Gas Company, 20 May 1881, with enclosures and copy reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding railway misunderstanding, gas company, salmon fishings and Charles Simpson, 26 May 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insurance payments and gas, 2 June 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from the Rev Gordon J. Donald asking for a form to help him claim abatement of income tax, 15 June 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding gas pipeline, water supply, investments, 29 June 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding new railway scheme, Nether Buckie Harbour, ship ‘Glendonwyn’, 1 July 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding ship ‘Glendonwyn’, railway, parochial board, 6 July 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding Robert Cheyne’s interest in the Drybridge shop, water supply, wishing harbour could take new steamers, 13 July 1881 Copy letter to R.W. Duff from Alexander Scott, Hilton, Fochabers, mason, regarding filling the vacancy at Drybridge Post Office, with draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie thanking Scott for the copy, 16 July 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Scott, Hilton, Fochabers, regarding Drybridge Post office, 22 July 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding John Gall’s bid for a shop lately occupied by Andrew Geddes, 27 July 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding the American Mortgage Company, the Parochial Board and water, Alexander Mair’s attitude, 4 August 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding Scottish American Mortgage Company, 8 August 1881, with copy reply Letter from D.J. Ryan, Inchgower, to cover cheque for shooting rents, 22 August 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, mentioning another investment opportunity, 24 August 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding investments and gas, 29 August 1881, with copy reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Jane Thomson, croft of Whitegate, asking for a reference, 2 September 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Major William Hector, Portannachy, regarding slanderous accusations of the Thomson family at Whitegate about him, 4 September 1881, with draft reply Printed letter from John Strain, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, asking for donations to re-establish a church in St Andrews, 8 September 1881, with draft reply, and letterhead engraving of St Andrew’s Cathedral Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insurance claim after fire in stables occupied by James Thomson, Nether Buckie, 12 September 1881 Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding sale of ship ‘Glendonwyn’, 13 September 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insurance for fire in stables, gas, sale of ship ‘Glendonwyn’, 14 September 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding Nether Buckie rents, 23 September 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding movements of the ‘Glendonwyn’ and gas works, 8 October 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding late payment by John Smith, 19 October 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding the ‘Glendonwyn’, water supply ‘a nice spade is ordered for Miss Gordon’s use in cutting the first turf’, 19 October 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding ‘Glendonwyn’, 22 October 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Charles Simpson, Renfrew, regarding settlement of his insurance payments and disposal of harmonium and fossils, 27 October 1881 Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Charles Simpson, Renfrew, regarding annual premium on life police, 4 November 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Charles Simpson, Renfrew, regarding his financial settlements, 7 November 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding interest from Prairie Company, 10 November 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Merson, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding bank deposits, 11 November 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from R. Duncan and Graham, grocers, Banff, regarding settlement of account of Andrew Geddes, 17 November 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Robert Davidson, Nether Buckie, regarding money he is owed, 23 November 1881, with draft reply Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Thomson, merchant, Nether Buckie, regarding a story in the Elgin Courant, 28 November 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Peter Thomson, fishcurer, Nether Buckie, regarding a bond from Thomson, 12 December 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Cumming acknowledging cheque for county and road assessments, 14 December 1881 Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Thomson, Elgin, regarding order for cattle feed, 28 December 1881 (59 items) |