| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie from his nephew James Duff, London, to cover other letters, family news (including Mary’s smallpox inoculation), Captain John Gordon’s improving health, visit from Montcoffer’s eldest son, his younger brother died at sea, Madeira letters, Murray the consul still unsure about leaving though a vessel has been ready waiting for him since the previous June, failures in the City, breakfast with Lord Adam Gordon who has vacated his seat in Parliament, but letters can be sent to Lord Fife or Sir James Duff even when they are not in town, asked when the Duke of Gordon might be boing north Lord Adam ‘said that the question could not be well answered without enquiring of the Dutchess, that in some Houses the Grey mare was the better Horse’, 20 May 1788. With wrapper, and enclosing Account of Captain John Gordon of Glastirum with John Duff, 7 May 1788 |