| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, sending letters from Madeira and receipt for a bundle of spades and glass lanterns for the lobby and the stairs, ‘I think it would not do so well to send a Globe Lamp since in case of an accident, which it may be very liable to with you, it would become quite useless’, shortage of cash, financial arrangements, plans to send enamelled candlesticks, present of sugar, tongues, hams and cheese as present for Tochineal, 4 January 1776. On reverse part of copy letter from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, regarding lack of salt fish, quality of new wines, encouraging orders for next year as soon as possible, prices of grain, ordering staves of different kinds, and an anvil [12 December 1775] |