| Description | Copy letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, regarding receiving no letters from them since he last wrote, ‘our Gouvernor Brother in Law who was formerly Ambassador in Spain is named Secretary of State’, they will be sorry to see him go as he has been of great service and only the other day saved the Donaldson house from ruin, some deliveries of wheat and flour from America, surplus of herring, apologising that it will be hard to fulfil an order as most north wines are sold, malmsey to go in May or June, sending wine to St Kitts as the easiest place to ship to in that direction, hoping to see Captain Patrick Duff and his lady on their way out to India, prices rising for Canary wines, asking for iron hoops and rivets, Hamburg hogsheads and quarter casks, asking for opinion on a letter from Quebec, asking for a set of trusses for his rupture, 11 February 1775 |