| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon from his brother James Gordon, London, defending writing so often when Alexander barely replies, payment of a bill on Lord Fife, Alexander never updates him or acknowledges anything, Alexander’s hand prevents him writing but his daughter will write for him, James suspects he is out walking, ask Mrs Riddoch to write for him, delivery of gauze from Madeira, parcels for Mrs Gordon containing ‘a very fine Silver gilt corrall, with bells and whistle, the other a broad blue ribbon for a sash or belt, both for her little boy’, 12 October 1779 |