| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, thanking for letter, McKilligin and other local packets are down at the Nore awaiting the arrival of a convoy, fulfilling Alexander’s commissions but not for a peat bucket or brick dust which could be got locally, a present for Mrs. Gordon, ‘a shagreen case with a pair of very genteel & I think handsome paste shoebuckles, quite in the pink of the present mode’, approving a perspective painting for over a mantelpiece, sending fir seeds, they have sent Archy Duff to Jamaica, arrangements for John Duff’s passage to India and how he will meet with the expenses of messing with his own rank, unusually fine weather, 2 April 1779 |