| Description | Letter from Alexander Gordon in Madeira to his brother James Gordon of Letterfourie, listing bills, swords to be repaired ‘each with two spare scabords, one of them only wants a blade which you are desired to order what they call there a Spanish tuck’, pattern for white Dutch flax, demand for citron, sending onion seed but not snuff as it is insipid, cargo of neem flowers, bad relations with the consuls, 22 September 1762 |