| Description | Copy letters from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie, first to go by Cork and Dublin, enclosing ship list showing they are in no want of Irish provisions, demand for wines in Dublin, arrival of a French privateer fresh from a fight with an English ship, mention of another ship, the Bainbridge, taken by the privateer, asking for rice, corn, staves and pork from America if convenient, arrival of the Amazon Master of War with news of Captain Leslie’s ship, asking him to go to see if the wines have arrived safely, asking for more wheat, and for quills, 18 August 1761; second in a rush as the vessels are preparing to sail in convoy with the Amazon [man of war] to ‘clear them of two privateers that at present infest our coast’, he is down at the mouth at James’ letters, transporting onions, 22 August 1761; third an original letter, complaining of orders being contradicted and letters going astray, anxious about safety of wine cargoes with privateers about but ‘Better get something for them than keep them to turn Vineaigre’, 23 August 1761 |