| Description | Letters from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie, first, copy letter to go by a vessel that has delivered bad pilchards and which might well not come safely to port, effects of current affairs on markets, looking forward to arrival of butter and beef, which will sell well after Lent, ridiculous prices for wine, bills, 21 March 1762; second, copy letter regarding sending shipment, getting it insured and hoping for a convoy to join for safety, not many ships coming to Madeira for fear of being captured, 25 March 1762; third, letter mentioning arrival of the Grosvenor to take load of wine, ‘Captain Partington is ashore with me and I think him a good, genteel sort of a Young Man I expect no rest nor quietness during his stay here he is so beseigd by followers, two Ladys his passengers are also at this house’, 30 March 1762 |