| Administrative History | Captain Alexander Dingwall Fordyce RN. (1800 – 1864) |
| Description | Letter books with original letters received from family members, friends and acquaintances, and various correspondents.
Some letters by Captain Dingwall Fordyce are also included in the 1859 -1867 letter book of his son William Dingwall Fordyce, see MS 4038/2/2/1. These are mainly on estate business.
Letters received by Captain Alexander Dingwall Fordyce RN. (1800 – 1864). A sample volume from mid-sequence (1859 – 1880) includes:
Family letters from his brother George, his sons William, Alexander and James, his daughter Rachel, and his nephews Thomas Hutchison in Westminster and Alexander Hunter in Bombay; letters from friends and acquaintances including Charles Abernethy, New Deer; John Hamilton of Fairholm, Lanarkshire; Arthur Farquhar of Elsick, James Welsh, minister of NewDeer; letters on business and estate matters, for example on the Pitsligo salmon fishings, the Pitsligo Volunteers (from Charles Sleigh, schoolmaster in Pitsligo), the Free Church station in Pitsligo, including several from his factor William Ross. Also letters and copy letters concerning a petition by Captain Alexander Dingwall Fordyce to the Army Secretary, Major-General Sir Charles Yorke, for a commission for Dingwall Fordyce's nephew James Thom, November 1859 (related correspondence and offer of commission in letter book for April 1860). |