| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James in London, with details of a cargo sent to Banff, and another sent to Portsoy except for two column capitals that are not yet finished, ‘Send me without delay the plan and dimensions of the Lobby that the black dots may be got ready to go if possible with the Capitals. I believe you are right in your judgement of the hard and the common Plaister, so I leave it to yourself’, enclosing letter for his daughter which will probably not please her, ‘my great misfortune of inability to write freely, occasioned (as you well know and I feel to my grief) by the grievous tremor of both hands when I use the pen’, warning him against a Robert Bartlet, brother-in-law to Sir William Dunbar, who has absconded owing money and is thought to have fled to Scotland with his wife and child from Granada, 28 April 1774 |