| Description | Correspondence of Lord Fife at Duff House, date and correspondent endorsed:
Building: Richard Birnie - house in London; Business: A Milne, Crown office, Dublin; Estate: James Stuart, Major Charles Stuart, Alexander Stronach, D McDowall Grant - shooting, George G Robinson, John Watt, William Lawson;
Family: Archibald Duff, James Duff (nephew), Arthur Duff - fishing, B Duff, Richard Wharton, Sophia Wharton Duff, Anne Duff;
Finance: Thomas Coutts and Co.;
Personal: George Skene - includes comments on the slave trade, and activities of planters' wives, drowning of young woman in Park Canal, Mrs D Tobin, William Abercromby, Francis Tulloch, Duchess of Gordon, Lieut. William McGregor, H Cecelia Johnston, John Wheler, Charles Burney, John Gordon;
Place: Lieut. Colonel Gordon, Francis Robertson - Jamaica;
Politics: George Skene - mobs, military activity: "The Ministry are causing an apparent bustle for Carriages of every description to convey Troops with expedition to the Coast, but the Public believe that this is done more for the purpose of alarm and of exhibiting their own wonderful activity than from any real apprehension of the French ...", Charles Burney, James Duff. |