| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, regarding bills and orders, now allowed to import whole casks, thanking for flour and wheat, flour bags old and rotten and have tainted the flour, new development of growing Indian corn in Poland, shortage of staves because of American embargoes, Hamburg ones are expensive but would like ones from Danzig, Stettin or Colberg, they are best bought at the beginning of the year, thanking for garden seeds, dealings with a French Indiaman which paid for wine with wheat, flour, Swedish iron, cordage, chinaware, India goods, tea, refined saltpetre, etc., prospect of doing business with Berthons in London and Madeira, agreed prices of wine for the year, repeat of governor’s order for dogskins and a copper ‘kitchen’, list of bills, 15 June 1776 |