| Description | Letters and papers about Buckie, 1883:
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the road surveyorship, 2 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Robert Davidson’s request for a loan and intention of building, 2 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Robert Smith and a disputed payment due, 2 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Bremner, Nether Buckie, regarding accounts and how the Post Office has increased his stationery business, 3 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the road surveyorship and the vote, 8 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Joseph Forbes, Baremuir, regarding taking a farm, January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Robert Knight, Newmill, Keith, regarding a house in Buckie, 10 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding disposition for Gall’s tenement, Robert Smith’s new boat, and George Munro’s debt, 10 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, making arrangements to go shooting on Letterfourie land, 12 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Andrew Murray, blacksmith, Dallachy by Fochabers, asking for a loan to build a smithy, 15 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Bremner, Buckie, regarding accounts and contracts for the Great Northern Railway to Buckie, 16 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding paying off George Munro’s debt, payment from R. Smith, settlement with James Gall, lease for George Stewart at Hillocks, 16 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding payment form James Gall, lease for Hillocks, charters for George Munro and Robert Smith, debt due by J. Coull ‘Dumpy’, and Young’s rent, 17 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, advising on a loan, 18 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, arranging to meet him at Hillocks, 19 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Davidson, secretary, Central Banffshire Farmers’ Club, asking him for his subscription, 25 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding meeting Mr Scott at Hilton, Gall’s title, other settlements, 25 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Robert Knight, Newmill, Keith, regarding house in Buckie, ‘the woman that I live with has been very bad so I never got the opportunity to write you’, taking over from his father in the business of being a cartwright, 29 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding lack of settlement at Hilton, charter for Andrew Cuthbert, arrangements for property of Jane Murray or Reid on her marriage, disposition for Gall, payment from Young, 29 January 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, sorry to hear that he is ill, instructions for dealing with Mr Scott and Hilton, 29 January 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to John Anton, Union Bank, regarding his investments, 29 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding his investments, 29 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Moffat, Great North of Scotland Railway Company, Aberdeen, regarding land they intend to acquire for the railway and station, and encouraging him to take shares in the company, 30 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James McConnachie, Rothes, asking for final payment for a house in Buckie, 31 January 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Mr McKenzie, Nether Buckie, regarding feu duties, 31 January 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding receipts for shares, 1 February 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to [William Moffat, Great North of Scotland Railway Company, Aberdeen], regarding land required for the railway and station, and shares in the company, 1 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding lease for Hillocks, 1 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Thomson, Nether Buckie, regarding storm windows for the house of Mrs. Gerry (Margaret Coull), for which she has left holes in the roof, progress on repairs, drains, possible exchange of properties in Buckie, 1 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the poinding of all the effects of the tenant of the Gordon Arms Hotel by a Leith wine and spirit merchant, offers for the house already since Ross’s troubles became known, 1 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Moffat, Great North of Scotland Railway Company, Aberdeen, regarding meeting to visit land required by railway, 3 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the Burnside march and the removal of Raffan, settlement with Scott over the march, requirements of Andrew Cuthbert, arrangements over Jane Murray or Reid’s house so that her children will benefit from it, 3 February 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Davidson, Central Banffshire Farmers’ Club, acknowledging receipt of subscription, 5 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insurance, 5 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding claiming arrears of rent from estate of late J. Smith at Hillocks, 6 February 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding lease for G. Stewart at Hillocks, 7 February 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to James Forbes, Baremuir, offering him the Burnmarch land occupied by William Smith, 8 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding claiming money owed from Ross, the tenant of the Gordon Arms Hotel, advice on how to rent it out, advice on selling, Burnside march, feu charter for William Thomson, 8 February 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from A.I. Baker, secretary, The Canada North West Land Company, Ltd, London, regarding share certificates, 9 February 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to James Forbes, Baremuir, regarding the Burnmarch land, 12 February 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Isabella Coull, Nether Buckie, regarding windows for her new house, 14 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Burnside march, Ross’ son-in-law offering to take on the house of Mackie the baker, first advertisement of the letting of the Gordon Arms, 15 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding charter for Andrew Cuthbert, offers for lease of Gordon Arms, 19 February 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding Alexander Bowie, labourer, Mrs Arthur Ritchie and her husband, and the late W.L. Taylor, Union Bank, Cullen, 19 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 19 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from P.J. Weir, Fochabers, proposing an exchange of feu between Gordon and Weir’s brother, 20 February 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Duncan, Peterhead, regarding taking over his father’s property in Nether Buckie, 21 February 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding the Gordon Arms, 23 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 23 February 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding payment from Bowie, lase for the Gordon Arms, planned railway bridges at Drybridge, 26 February 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding William Duncan’s arrears, Lamb, William Thomson disputing debt, and Ritchie, 27 February 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding leasing the Gordon Arms, 27 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from P.S. Weir, Fochabers, concerning a possible exchange of land between Weir’s brother and Gordon, ‘It seems to me that the schemes you submit are draughted rather too exclusively from the Letterfourie standpoint. From such a height the small things in plane run the risk of being lost sight of or at least foreshortened’, with description of land by the church and its problems, 27 February 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Jessie Hossack, Green Craig, asking for money for her mother, 1 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Thomson, Nether Buckie, regarding forgetting a bill, 3 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Wilson, Edinburgh, regarding shares in the North of Scotland Canadian Mortgage Company, glad to hear of progress in the Banffshire Coast Railway, hoping to visit Banffshire in the summer, comment on naming stations, 4 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Gordon J. Donald, Rathven Manse, Buckie, to cover statement of stipend, 5 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the lease of the Gordon Arms, William Thomson’s refusal to pay feu duty, marches with Cluny on Hilton and Burnside farms, sale of Ritchie’s tenement, and Lamb, 5 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Gordon J. Donald, Rathven Manse, Buckie, acknowledging stipend, 7 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding letter from Edinburgh about Lamb, 7 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding Smith’s account, 7 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Cluny march at Burnside and destruction of a road, 7 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Patrick Barnett, Great North of Scotland Railway Company, Aberdeen, regarding meeting, 7 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the Banffshire Coast Railway, the lease of the Gordon Arms, arrears on Duncan’s feu, litigation with William Thomson, 9 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding compensation from the railway company for James Anderson’s croft, 9 March 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding offer for Gordon Arms, 13 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding charter for Munro, 14 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Ross and the Gordon Arms, 16 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Charles Bonnyman, Portgordon, arranging money for starting a business, 16 March 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to William McKenzie regarding lease of Gordon Arms, 16 March 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding amendment of George Munro’s charter, 17 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding charter for Munro in Burnmouth, 19 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Raffan, Burnside, Buckie, regarding leaving Burnside, and possible return, ‘for my own part I am not greatly interested about it but my mistress will be very much put about for want of her Cows and Annie for her Pet Lamb’, comments on the state of the land and the arrangements between them, 19 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Imlach, carpenter, Portessie, on behalf of a friend hoping to hold Salvation Army services in the granary in Buckie, 19 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding Smith’s bill, 20 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Gordon, Inspector, Rathven Parochial Board, regarding claim against the Great North of Scotland Railway company for John Slater’s house, 21 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding assignation of house built by Lamb to Lamb’s daughter, 21 March 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Mr. Weir, regarding exchange of feus, 22 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Watt, advocate, Aberdeen, regarding possible lease of granary in Buckie, 23 March 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Lamb’s request to borrow money on the security of a house in Buckie, 24 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding John Munro’s charter, assignation of Lamb’s house to his daughter, hoping to settle marches amicably with the Cluny estate manager, 24 March 1883, with draft reply
Copy letter from George Raffan, Burnside, to Mr Scott, Hilton, regarding removal of a road, 27 March 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to William McKenzie, merchant, Nether Buckie, regarding a saw yard, 27 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding mistake in ledger, 27 March 1883, with draft reply
Part of letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Thomson, suggesting building working men’s houses in his garden ground, planned changes to the house he has taken on, feels Nether Buckie is neglected locally, [27 March 1883] with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding petition from locals over a road in connexion with the railway, 30 March 1883, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding cash account, regarding problem with Ritchie, mention of John Reid King and James Stewart, and wooden houses at the Gordon Arms, 30 March 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Aitken, Fochabers, with account of feu duty, 2 April 1883
Receipt for payment of water and sewerage rates, Nether Buckie Special District, paid by Alexander Gordon, 3 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding continued problem with Ritchie’s properties, the Star Inn, action against William Thomson, and Duncan, 9 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding telegram from Allan & Soutar in the matter of the Ritchies, 10 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding request from Smith, salmon fisher, for a charter for his later father-in-law’s property (A. Stewart ‘Charlie’), which after the Married Woman’s Property (Scotland) Act 1881 he cannot have, and his dispute with Stewart’s elder daughter Mrs. John Coull ‘Tam’ and family, Duncan, and A. Lamb, mason, 11 April 1883, with copy reply
Copy letter from Alexander Mair, solicitor, to Alexander Lamb, junior, mason, regarding old Lamb’s properties, 11 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Andrew Murray, Upper Dallachy, near Fochabers, regarding meeting, 12 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Ritchie, Duncan, and the Burnside march road, 17 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mrs. Murdoch, Greencraig, asking for more money as she had to spend the last money on coals, 18 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Ritchie’s properties and the purchaser, Bennet of the Elgin Brewery, 19 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Alexander Dallas from Nairn and his desire to take on ‘the wooden shop adjoining the Barber’s for a pie shop’, 19 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Calder, Buckie, regarding James Grant’s shop, 21 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding the railway turf-cutting: ‘I am anxious not to be behind in the rejoicings tomorrow although 'Highland' as regards Railway and not much of an admirer of Lady Gordon Cathcart. Flags cannot be got and I am purposing to have a few Evergreens on frames enclosing “mottos”, or devices of some kind, in front of my house. The object of this note is to solicit a supply of Evergreens from you’, 23 April 1883
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding lease of Gordon Arms, 23 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding feu charter for John Munro, and removal of Robert Geddes, fisherman, to Portgordon, 23 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Duncan, dispute with Cluny estate over the Burnside march, the removal of the Ritchies, charter for properties owned by Stewart ‘Charlie’, Robert Geddes, Portgordon, and the damage Ross is doing to the Gordon Arms, 26 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Hendry, Nether Buckie, asking for practice ground for the Nether Buckie Football Club, 27 April 1883, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William McKenzie, painter and decorator, Nether Buckie, reporting that James Ross, the departing tenant, is destroying the Gordon Arms, 27 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Hendry & Co., builders, Buckie, regarding damage to the sawmill road, 28 April 1883, with draft reply
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to P.M. Barnett, Great North of Scotland Railway Company regarding problem with road in Nether Buckie, 30 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding removal of Old John Geddes, fishcurer, and his son William, and their problems with James Thomson’s threats, 30 April 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding William Thomson’s decision not to defend the action against him, 30 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Gordon Arms and payment from new tenant McKenzie, 1 May 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding lease for Gordon Arms, meeting about the Highland Railway, dispute over course of burn at Hilton and Burnside, 2 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding payment from William Smith, 3 April 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Patrick Barnett, Great North of Scotland Railway Company, Aberdeen, regarding dispute with feuars over road in Nether Buckie, 3 May 1883, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 8 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 9 May 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mrs Rigg (Mary Cassean), Castle Douglas, explaining who she is (the attendant of his late aunt Miss Glendonwyn and widow of Thomas Rigg, farmer), asking for a loan of fifty pounds, and asking him not to mention it to Mr. Ferguson who talks too much, 11 May 1883
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to James Cormack, house carpenter, Nether Buckie, regarding the railway and his property, 12 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 12 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding current account, 15 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Geddes, Nether Buckie, regarding George Geddes ‘Bo’ and his feu duty, 16 May 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Gerry, fishcurer, Buckie, regarding Alexander Hepburn and others using Genny’s land for his cattle without permission, 19 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Geddes, fishcurer, Buckie, regarding being summonsed by John Thomson to remove from land he has occupied for years, 21 May 1883, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mary Rigg, Castle Douglas, regarding her late husband’s sisters whom she cares for, 22 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from MacKenzie, Innes & Logan, Edinburgh, regarding Mr Boggie’s Trust in favour of Mrs Thomson, 18 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insurance, 28 May 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Andrew Murray, blacksmith, Upper Dallachy, near Fochabers, regarding feasibility of establishing a smithy in Nether Buckie, 29 May 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Geddes, collector, Buckie, regarding security for George Geddes ‘Bo’ for the railway company, 2 June 1883
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to George Geddes junior ‘Bo’, regarding charter for railway company, 2 June 1883
Receipt for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to James Thomson for repairing stables in Nether Buckie, 7 June 1883
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding fire insurance, 13 June 1883
Poinding by Andrew Dugan & Sons, merchants, Glasgow, against Robert Knight, Dallochy, by Fochabers, 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Gordon, Rathven Parochial Board, Buckie, asking for payment of poor rates, 20 June 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insurance claim for fire damage, 20 June 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 23 June 1883, with draft reply
Receipt for money paid by Miss Alexandrina Gordon, Letterfourie, to Alexander Hepburn, for coals and cartage, 24 June 1883
Receipt for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to J.H. Geddes for coals, 29 June 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Geddes, coal merchant, Buckie, regarding feu duty and best method of buying cheap coal, 2 July 1883
Receipt for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to James Scott for cutting wood, 3 July 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding payment of rent by William McKenzie for the Gordon Arms, 4 July 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding rewording a bill, 10 July 1883
Receipt for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Rathven Parochial Board as arrears of poor duty, 16 July 1883
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Adam, Thomson & Ross, advocates, Aberdeen, regarding arrears on tenement, 17 July 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Geddes, Buckie, regarding charter for the railway company and George Geddes ‘Bo’, 17 July 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Adam, Thomson & Ross, advocates, Aberdeen, regarding dispute with Buckie Extension Railway over property belonging to Christina Murray or Duncan, and information on property belonging to James Cormack and George Geddes ‘Bo’, 20 July 1883
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Adam, Thomson & Ross, advocates, Aberdeen, as to charters relating to George Geddes ‘Bo’ and the railway, 21 July 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from W. Woodman Clark, watchmaker and jeweller, Buckie, asking if the rent will be the same as with his previous landlord, 24 July 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding James Cormack’s feu and the railway company, with copy of letter from the railway company’s agents, Cormack ‘is an illiterate and suspicious man’, 25 July 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Adam, Thomson & Ross, advocates, Aberdeen, regarding properties in Nether Buckie to be acquired for the railway, 25 Jul Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, 25 July 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding insuring the stable in front of the chapel, 25 July 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Adam, Thomson & Ross, advocates, Aberdeen, regarding meeting to discuss properties required by railway company, 27 July 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding removal of Ritchies from their properties, settlement between railway company and Cormack, 30 July 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from T. Flann, stoneware merchant and fancy goods dealer, Nether Buckie, alerting him to arrival of shipload of coal, 30 July 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding Cormack and the railway, 2 August 1883
Receipted account for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to G. & W. Sutherland, slaters and plasterers, Buckie, 3 August 1883
Receipt for money paid by Alexander Christie, Hillfoot, to William Stewart, timber merchant, Buckie, 13 March 1883, paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie, 10 August 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Cochran & Anderson, Aberdeen, regarding his status as a gratuitous trustee in the Charleston Trust, 16 August 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, Buckie, regarding assignation for Duncan, and a charter for Cormack and Hume, 16 August 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding railway and access in Bowie’s lands, 23 August 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding selling share in ship ‘Glendonwyn’, 24 August 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from A. Hendry, ironmonger and shipowner, Buckie, regarding accounts (enclosed), 24 August 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Murray, ship carpenter, Nether Buckie, regarding repairs to battery, 25 August 1883, with draft reply
Receipted account for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to John Murray, ship carpenter, Nether Buckie, for repairs to battery, August 1883
Receipt for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, for work relating to assignation to Duncan of W.L. Taylor’s feu, 28 August 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Thomas Wilson, Keith, regarding his brother Andrew’s interest in taking on a garden, 10 September 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Murray, ship carpenter, Nether Buckie, asking for a loan until his business gets going, 19 September 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 27 September 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Wilson, Edinburgh, regarding his appointment as a Commissioner of Supply for Banff, Major Duff making him an offer for his superiority of Park, granted to him by Lord Fife, 28 September 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 1 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Wilson, Edinburgh, thanking him for his advice regarding retaining the lands of Park, 5 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding payment from McKenzie for the Gordon Arms, 9 October 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mary Rigg, Castle Douglas, regarding a bill to be renewed, 10 October 1883, with draft reply
Account of Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie with William Lendrum, blacksmith, Drybridge, Letterfourie, paid 11 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mary Rigg, Castle Douglas, regarding a bill now due, 24 October 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 12 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Andrew Wilson, gardener, Keith, regarding agreement, 24 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding deposit receipts, 29 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 29 October 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Munro, Glasgow, regarding interest for Miss Alexandrina Gordon and progress of school board, 2 November 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Robert Mitchell, Edinburgh, paying rent for gas works at Nether Buckie, 10 November 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Michie, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding unpaid bill, 12 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding a credit to his account, 16 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from McKenzie, Innes & Logan, Edinburgh, regarding Mr Boggie’s Trust in favour of Agnes Roxburgh or Thomson, 16 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John McWilliam, Buckie, regarding account for coals, 19 November 1883
Receipt for money paid by Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to the Aberdeen Lime Company, Buckie, for coals, 20 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James R. Mortimer, general furnishing ironmonger, Buckie, thanking for payment for furnishings at the Gordon Arms Hotel, 20 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mary Rigg, Castle Douglas, thanking him for his generosity, 21 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John McWilliam, Buckie, thanking for payment for coals and offering to make a seed cake for him, 22 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Mary Rigg, Castle Douglas, to cover first payment of her debt, 23 November 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mackie, Buckie, to cover cheque for repairs, 26 November 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Barclay, Commercial Hotel, Buckie, apologising for mistake in accounts, 30 November 1883
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to James Forbes, solicitor, Banff, concerning the Police Act, 1 December 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Jessie Jane Kessach, Greencraig, requesting money for Mrs. Murdoch, her grandmother, 4 December 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Forbes, solicitor, Banff, regarding Police Act and proposed Police Burghs, 7 December 1883, with draft reply
Draft letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Robert Mitchell, Edinburgh, as to cost of lighting the streets of Buckie
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 14 December 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Union Bank, Buckie, regarding shares, 17 December 1883, with draft reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Miss Margaret Jane Wilson, Buckie, concerning her mother’s wish to stay on in her current house if it is not sold, 24 December 1883
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