| Description | Letter to Colonel John Gordon of Cluny from John Taylor Gordon, Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, agreeing to end any further intercourse between them, blaming Burke, the genealogist, for telling him that he was Cluny's heir, claiming that he had been explicit from the start and Cluny did not contradict him, that it had been a shock to him to discover that Cluny had children and a brother, encouraging him to contact Burke and rectify the error (with transcription), 3 February 1837 |