| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, regarding need for plastering at Letterfourie, keen to get back money they spent on helping Alexander Innes, ‘I must make a resolution to mind none of their recommendations in the future, they are very lavish of their words and protestations of friendship but won’t give a sixpence to save the person recommended by them from starving in the streets’, dispute with Colonel Morris over payment for wine, ‘I can’t help being angry that any man should think himself in a line of life excusable from corresponding as he ought to do with a gentleman in every respect equal to himself’, spending too much money trying to support the house in Madeira, 23 May 1776 |