| Description | Correspondence of Lord Fife at Duff House. Subject matter and correspondents include:
May-November 1789:
Building: John Thomson - Fife House;
Business: George Robinson;
Election- Caithness: Robert Sinclair;
Family: J. Duff, M. Udny Duff;
Military news: John Sinclair;
Personal: Thomas Dunbar, J. Ferguson [of Pitfour], Grimston, General James Grant, W. Hodgkinson, James Sinclair, A. Brodie, Thomas Watson Ward, John Sinclair;
Place: John Grant, James Pattison, Robert Ballingall;
Place-Military: William Abercromby, R. Dundas;
Society: Eliza Mackintosh;
March-May 1802:
Building: Gardner and Gregson;
Business: Robert Dundas - Rose;
Estate: Alexander Stronach, James Stuart, Francis;
Family: Arthur Duff, Sophia Henrietta Wharton, James Duff, B.D.;
Local: Lord Hobart - Lord Lieutenancy;
Money: Robert Urquhart;
Personal: Kellie, Earl of Buchan, Coventry;
Place-Military: Archibald Duff (Minorca);
Politics: Sligo - act of union, Irish peerages. |