| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, complaining about lack of correspondence, directions for furniture to be collected at Banff, ‘the case with Glass writ upon it containing 4 mirrors and 3 Girandoles with their branches requires particular care … the Toilet Table is made of deal and of the form in fashion, the dressing box to be placed upon it is of beautiful sattin wood containing the oval mirror, and in the drawer are the crimson tabby coat and the gauze coat ghat goes over it, with which the table is to be covered … silk the same as the coverings of the sopha chairs and stools, which cost the first owner 14/ pr yard and me 5/, I could have sold it at 9/ on the spot’, Indian cadets have not yet been announced, wishes Alexander had gone as requested and spoken to the minister of Fordyce about John Duff, too many people with Madeira connexions in town now and it makes the India business very different, wishes Alexander would retire and let him retire, too, list of requirements for Madeira house, 24 September 1778 |