| Description | Papers of Earls of Caithness:
Letters to Lord Caithness from 1st Lord Fife: Condolences on death of brother Francis Sinclair, invitation to Duff House, legal matters, agreement over payment of Countess' debts by Lord Caithness, March 1763;
Letters to Lord Caithness from Lord Macduff, later 2nd Earl of Fife: concerning contract of marriage from 1st Lord Fife with memorandum of settlements which Lord Braco intends on James Duff his eldest son and Rt. Hon. Lady Dorothea Sinclair and including military comment, militia, parliament, politics, personal plans, relationship of wife and her mother, estrangement from mother since marriage, abuse of Macduff by Lady Caithness (7 November 1760), Macduff as intermediary between Lord and Lady Caithness, new king (1760), elections, happiness with wife, death of 1st Earl, anonymous letter concerning claimant for estate. |