| Description | Letters from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie, thanking for letters that came in convoy escorted by the Scarborough, by which he has now shipped wine, waiting for another convoy for Antigua, suggesting James should not come to agreements too easily with other tradesmen, sale of rice for which he has not been paid, business with Mr Ogilvie in London, asking for rice, corn, staves, pork, beef has sold well, privateers around, new company Fergusson & Murdoch, ‘[Fergusson’s] behaviour to Catanachs House cannot certainly be approved of by anyone. As to Mouat before he left me he began to assume to much of the gentleman’, Duff, who replaced him, is quite good and just as useful, salt fish still scarce, wheat and flour becoming scarce, wanting a letter from Mr Pemberton and wishing for a more assiduous agent in Philadelphia, and elsewhere in America, asking for French brandy, insurance premiums high, payment of balance to Bishop, 21 September 1762. With wrapper |