| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, referring to a dispute amongst the merchants in Madeira for their quotas of the cargo to be sent by the Lady Gage to New York, receipts for clothes, planks and Windsor chairs, ‘6 are painted green and will do very well for what you call the Wardroom, the 6 small ones are intended for the Lobby and painted lively blue which I desire to be the colour of the iron bannisters of the stair’, 24 June 1777 |