| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon from his brother James Gordon, London, regarding insurance for goods sent, not sure if the ship has a convoy to protect it – the rum in particular is very expensive, ‘I think you and I … have now a stock of Rum greater and believe of a better quality than in possession of any private Family in the Country’, filling the empty rum barrels with porter, no news of Duff’s arrival in Madeira, expecting two India fleets, anxious about Archie Duff’s return, place for a lad Rolland in Jamaica, 20 September 1779 |