Description | Letters to Lord Fife in London. Subject matter and correspondents include:
Bundle 1: 1789-1797: Estate: James Duncan; Family: R. Wharton, Sophia Henrietta Wharton; Local: James Reid; Local-Militia: Mary Abercromby; Military news: James Duff (Frankfurt); Personal: Mrs. Smith, E. Amsherst and A. Erskine - death of Lord Kellie; Trade: M. Le Texier, V & R Green Proposed Relief to the subscribers to the voluntary loan of 18 millions, 6 June 1797; Prospectus of The Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner, November 1797.
Bundle 2: January 1798-March 1798: Estate: Alexander Stronach; Family: Mrs. D. Duff, M. Norcliffe - ill health of Miss. Duff of Scarborough, H.R. Duff; Local: John Sinclair - Statistical Account of Scotland; Local-Militia: James Brodie; Military news: James Duff (Rastadt) forwarded by Fife to William Pitt; Personal: Elizabeth, David Low, A. Erskine, James Dunbar, Louisa Helen Dunbar, Captain Corner, Lord Brownlow, A. Brodie; Place: James Milne, Archibald Young; Place-Military: Francis Fraser; Society: L. Downe; Trade: George Ralph. |