| Description | Letters headed ‘American Correspondence’: copy letter to A. Gordon & Co. from Andrew McGill & Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia, introducing themselves, interested in trade though fish prices are low in the West Indies, asking for a cargo of wine, sending prices of other commodities in case of interest [not present], 23 October 1780; note on letter from Benjamin Mulberry Holmes confirming above order; copy letter from Alexander Brymer, Halifax, Nova Scotia, hoping that the ship from McGill & Co. has arrived safely and is loading, offering to return her with a load of fish to exchange for more wine, 7 October 1780; copy letter to Andrew McGill & Co., Halifax, Nova Scotia, from A. Gordon & Co., Madeira, confirming receipt of letter and letting them know that their ship put into Lisbon leaking and has been condemned, hoping to fulfil the order another way, 23 February 1781; copy letter to Benjamin Mulberry Holmes from A. Gordon & Co., Madeira, acknowledging order and mentioning the condemned ship, 23 February 1781; copy letter to Alexander Brymer, Halifax, from A. Gordon & Co., Madeira, regarding bills and condemned ship, 23 February 1781; copy letter to Brymer & Co., New York, from A. Gordon & Co., Madeira, to cover current prices, 23 February 1781; letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from A. Gordon & Co., Madeira, regarding sending above letters by a ship in the King’s service which was supposed to take the Earl of Winchelsea to Madeira but he has left the ship in Lisbon in poor health, discussion of harm to order from loss of condemned ship, 24 February 1781 |