| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon from his brother James Gordon, London, hoping that the things he has sent have arrived safely, not much news from Madeira, news from John Duff heading off to be a cadet in India, ‘God grant the poor lad success, he is very sober, well inclined, and I believe quite frugal, but I hope I shall never have any more such jobs on my hands, yet what to do with his miserable Brother Archie, if return from the West Indies as he went out, the Lord knows. The passage for James Duff, and Helen Riddoch to be housekeeper, was taken and paid for a good while ago …’, news of bad weather from Scotland, asking him to write to Colquhoun Grant about the titles to Walkerdales, 4 June 1779 |