| Description | Letter to Gordon, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Alexander Gordon & Co., Madeira, regarding bills remitted, current problems sending wines to America, arrangements for shipping more easily to Scotland, illness of Captain Duff’s wife so that they will stay longer and not proceed yet to India, arrangements with various customers, good wheat in stock, but all commodities sell slowly, 29 May 1775. Enclosed: list of bills remitted, and postscript concerning orders for hartshorn, pepper, late despatch of wines for Duke of Gordon, Lord Errol and others. |