| Description | Copy letter to Alexander Gordon & Co., Madeira, from James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, regarding correspondence, bills badly sent, shipping of wine by an uninsurable route then lost to an American privateer, wheat to be sent in future in Osnaburg bags, not crocus ones, not sure about arrangement proposed by Shaw & Fraser of Quebec, approval of some of their actions and not of others, advice and caution, sorry to hear of bad vintage and hardship in Madeira, 21 June 1779. Note to Alexander Gordon at end. |