Description | Letters to Lord Fife. Subject matter and correspondents include: Election Banff: W. Grant; Local: George Robinson, Alexander Johnstone - state of poor, Montquhitter, January 1801; Local-Militia: George Abercromby, Alexander Duff, William Abercromby, Alexander Milne, Portland, H. Donaldson, D. Macdowall Grant; Personal: John Watt - comment on Rose's 'ridiculous claim', Berkeley - inflammation of eyes.
Copy of militia act, 1797; Returns Strathisla and Boyn, Keith, Balveny, Newmill, Enzie; General return, [1798].
Letters to Stewart Souter. Subject matter and correspondents include: Business: James Laidlaw - feu charters for Ashliesh, Monaughty, Kinnairdy and Melrose, Patrick Duff - sending documents about land in appointment of commissioner of supply; Estate: William Reid, P. Duff, Alexander Stuart, A. Chisholm; Local-Militia: S. Souter - errors in returns; Personal: Robert Bartlet, T. Kyle - conduct of Geddes, gardener, Buchanan House. |