| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon from his brother James Gordon, London, sending everything Alexander asked for ‘except Sandy Ogilvie’s Buckskin breeches, which will not be sent till I have his measure, as none of your Taylors can alter them, if necessary, without spoiling them’, enclosing letters from Madeira, hoping to hear of the West Indies fleet arriving there, sherry is now more popular than madeira, communications with Tochieneal and [Hay of] Rannes, ‘I can tell you nothing certain or for your instruction in matters of politics; we are all in a mist seemingly from the first Minister down to the lowest Clerk in office, how things will turn out or if for or against this Country God knows …’, trying to secure a cadetship for someone in Bengal, too hot in London and wants to be at Letterfourie, purchase of second-hand furniture for his drawing room which is fashionable and elegant but he does not like it, will send it on with a table, list of things on their way to Letterfourie, including hops, mangoes, flour and sugar, 21 July 1778 |