| Description | Copy letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, regarding bad weather and the effect on shipping, thanks for lottery tickets, capture of wine by Americans, dealing with Captain Watt requires patience, reports on various customers, bad prospects for trade, likely effect of rupture between Portugal and Spain, ‘the Americans have hitherto made but a poor figure in the way of defence, they brag more than they do fight’, account of their attack on a schooner, new orders for wine, new deliveries of wheat, etc., and list of bills remitted, 12 January 1777; with it letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James in London, to cover copy letter, mentioning Killigin’s deliveries to Banff, asking for linen, lost cargo probably taken by the Americans, 21 February 1777 |