| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, reminding him to write to Mr Rankine of Dundee to straighten accounts, Alexander’s plans to build offices at Letterfourie (granary, threshing barn and two houses), ‘there is one thing I am more afraid of than any other, and that is your being interrupted by Cluny, whom you know to be an ambitious neighbour and has manifested his desire to incroach upon me, and hem me in more than I believe even his father would have done’, accounts, Alexander’s order for smith’s bellows, anvil and vice for Cairnbanno, asking for comments on George Riddoch, Lord Adam Gordon is consolidating his debts, the Duke of Gordon’s appeal comes before the House of Lords today but James fears he will lose it, ‘Charles Gordon is here as I’m told, for all his cleverness his Cookery of his Grace’s matters has not been to advantage hitherto’, 21 March 1776 |