| Description | Correspondence of Lord Fife. Subject matter and correspondents include:
May 1785:
Personal: Edward Vanbrugh;
November 1786 - February 1787:
Estate: William Forsyth;
Money: John Gordon;
Place: John Geddes;
Politics: Thomas Steele, James Duff;
July - October 1787:
Business: Alexander Duthie, William Smith, John Ewen;
Personal: William Fraser, Helen Colquhoun, Edward Everard;
December 1787 - February 1788:
Estate: Stewart Souter;
Local: George Rose - Custom house at Banff;
Money: Helen Bell;
Place-Military: E. Forbes, B. Irish;
March - November 1788:
Building: John Spottiswood;
Business: George Robinson, John Wyatt;
Estate: Thomas Stewart, Alexander Lumsden, Alexander Stronach, William Rose, William Forsyth;
Family: William Shaw - nephews, James N. Innes;
Local: James Chalmer - bridge over river South Esk at Montrose;
Personal: Andrew Hay - death of Lady Fife (mother), Francis Cameron, M. Milne, Thomas Mackenzie, Archibald Milne, Robert Barclay, John Macgregor, Mar Sime, B. Hodgkinson, James Milne, Lt. Grant, Roderick McLeod, William Rainie, M. Findlater, Charles Cordiner, William Ogilvie, George Innes;
Place: Lt. Hay Forbes, John Glennie, Thomas Steele;
Place-Church: James Farquharson - Braemar and Crathie, James Leslie - Rothes;
Place-Military: E. Forbes, Patrick Stuart, M. Massie, C.I. Grant;
Society: Gordon;
September 1789:
Place-Church: William Abercromby - Rothiemay. |