| Description | Bundle labelled ‘Sir Robt Gordon various letters receipts etc 1890 and earlier’:
Receipt for money paid by Robert Gordon, Letterfourie, to Slateheugh Quarries, 10 April 1850
Receipt for money paid by Miss Alexandrina Gordon, Letterfourie, to Hugh McCallum for beef and butter, 19 June 1856
Note of shares and interest paid, 1855 - 1856
Part letter from Robert Gordon, Letterfourie, to unknown recipient thanking for help in various matters, 7 December 1858
Part letter from Robert Gordon, Letterfourie, to Mr Pyper, Edinburgh, regarding old case between Bennett and Sir Robert now revived by Miss Barbara Bennett, 29 December 1858
Receipt for money paid by Robert Gordon, Letterfourie, for county assessment, 7 February 1859
Receipt for money paid by Robert Gordon, Letterfourie, to John McCulloch, Glasgow, 21 December 1859
Letter to John Forbes, solicitor, Banff, from James Gordon, Keith, regarding Sir Robert Gordon’s poor rates, 16 May 1865
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Robert Geat, Forres, regarding Sir Robert’s payment for church and manse, and mentioning his own cottage for let, 30 May 1870, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from the Rev John Thomson, Elgin, reporting that a table to Miss Mary Irvine is complete, treat for the school children, visits to Miss Gordon who worries about Sir Robert’s case in the House of Lords, 2 January 1873, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from the Very Rev. Prior Vaughan, St Benedict’s, Fort Augustus, regarding arms of benefactors for windows of hall (part), 30 January [1873?]
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Aitken, Fochabers, with note of feu duty due on Letterfourie, 12 March 1880
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Alexander reminding him of money due for freestone and lime, 30 May 1879, with copy reply 27 July 1880, account, receipt and envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Gordon, clerk, Rathven Parochial Board office, with receipt for payment of rent for office, 9 December 1880. A later pencil note on the contents of the bundle has become glued to this.
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from James Thomson, Nether Buckie, enclosing receipt for Mrs Thomson’s life policy, financial arrangements, fraud by John Reid, possible cheating by Mrs Grant ‘Courderoy’, bad time of year for harling, William Thomson, grocer, has cut John Mackie, baker, badly with a knife, 30 June 1881
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding agreement for water supply for Nether Buckie, 24 February 1882
Envelope labelled ‘A. Young’s Cottage’, containing: Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from J. Perry, architect, Buckie, regarding plan for a cottage in Nether Buckie, Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding A. Young’s cottage, and ground plan (ink and colour on tracing paper) of ground floor of cottage and outbuildings, 25 February 1882
Envelope labelled ‘Harbour matters’, containing: Letter to Alexander Hepburn, harbour master, from John Allan, solicitor, Banff, re depth of harbour at Nether Buckie, 1 March 1882; copy reply noting that Nether Buckie harbour has been overlooked in favour of Cluny harbour in Buckie; letter to Alexander Hepburn from John Allan regarding a railway station for Nether Buckie harbour and arrangements for finances, 7 March 1882
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from George Raffan, Buckie, regarding the road and fence by Mr Scot’s and possible lawsuit of Cluny Trustees, 14 September 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding interdict served on road trustees, and lease for George Smith, boatbuilder, 12 November 1883
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding accident to the schooner ‘Glendonwyn’, advertising her sale, Ritchie’s houses, Hume and Mrs Merson, and lease for George Smith, boatbuilder, 17 December 1883, with copy reply
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Mair, solicitor, Buckie, regarding a disposition by Peter Thomson, charter for John Geddes ‘Jockles’ and for John Coull, cooper, sale by A. Hossack of tenement to John Coull ‘Tam’, model feu charter for future use, mention of Ritchie’s houses and John Reid ‘King’’s tenants, 12 April 1884, with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Geddes, Montrose, to cover assignation made to him by his father, John Geddes, fishcurer, 5 May 1884, with copy reply and envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Geddes, Montrose, with history of the property his father assigned to him, 16 June 1884, with copy reply and summary of the information
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from MacDonald & McNaughton, solicitors, Buckie, regarding entitlement to a charter by the holder of A. Thain’s old feu, 26 December 1884
Envelope containing: Letter to John Anton, Buckie, from William Adam, Banff, with plan of proposed foundry, 15 May 1888, Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Adam, Banff, regarding sending a plan to Mr Anton but receiving no reply, 23 February 1888. Plans and elevations, ink on tracing paper, enclosed
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Watson & Hossack, solicitors, Buckie, regarding St Andrew’s Hotel and Mrs Cruickshank’s continued lease, 2 February 1890
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Watson & Hossack, solicitors, Buckie, regarding debts of James Burgess, carpenter, Burnside, Drybridge, 18 February 1890, with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from William Adam senior, Seafield Foundry, Buckpool, Buckie, concerning problems with gasworks, 3 February 1890, with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Buckpool, regarding William Adam’s passbook for work on gasworks, and vouchers relating to Mrs Thomson, 20 March 1890
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from W. Adam & Son, Seafield Foundry, Buckpool, Buckie, regarding unsatisfactory letter from John Anton, 29 March 1890 with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from Watson & Hossack, solicitors, Buckie, regarding Winchester’s feu, charter, footbridge over Buckie Burn (letter from clerk to the Police commissioners enclosed), and Portgordon store, 17 April 1890
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Buckpool, regarding seat rents, with attached note of income and outgoings, 24 May 1890, with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Buckpool, regarding lease of hall to tenant of Gordon Arms, 22 May 1890, with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Buckpool, asking for specimen copies of Sir Robert’s signature, asking for valuation returns back, and income from shares, 13 May 1890, with envelope
Two letters to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from John Anton, Buckpool, regarding share income and measurement of bridge, 26 May 1890, with envelope
Letter to Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie from A. Scott, Drybridge, explaining the financial chain that is currently preventing him from delivering coals, involving William Adam, n.d. Encloses letter to Alic Scott from W. Adam, Luddick, Ponteland, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on same subject, 3 August 1890. In envelope
Copy letter from Sir Robert Gordon of Letterfourie to Watson & Hossack, solicitors, Buckie, concerning the lease of the Buckpool Gasworks to W. Adam & Son, n.d. [March 1890?]
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