| Description | Letter to Colonel John Gordon of Cluny from John Taylor Gordon, London, regarding his immediate assumption of the name Gordon under Burke's advice, a gift of a Newfoundland puppy for Colonel Gordon, sired by the Duke of York's dog, suggestion for his name, 'I drop the Doctor in my address now as better suited to a private gentleman and perhaps more aristocratic' (with transcription), 22 December 1836 |