| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon from his brother James, London, with list of several things sent north, including emery and Tripple for polishing stone and an old jar of pickles, payment for a cargo of wheat, flour and rice from Philadelphia, ‘wish their Profits may not be over the left shoulder, cost of these articles being so high in America’, ‘I told you some time ago that G.R. had been in jail, from which he was got out after much difficulty and trouble; new Writs were immediately after his enlargement taken out against him, the Rascals assuming themselves that, from his connection with you and me, he would be freed from lying in prison by our paying the money, though I thundered out the contrary whenever any of them had the impudence to speak to me’, 18 June 1774 |