| Description | Letters with instructions to Stewart Souter at Duff House from Lord Fife, some with enclosures, place and date of writing endorsed by Lord Fife. Enclosures:
Business: James Laidlaw - on contested claims, and asking if he may go as far as £9000 for Balmoral
Estate: W.L. Brown - requesting extension of lease on houses in Castle Street Aberdeen; James Stuart - on the behaviour of the troops quartered at Braemar: they have drunk more than £200 worth of whisky since their arrival, and some of the Braemar ladies are expected to follow them when they leave |