| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, regarding arrival in London of Mrs Sanders, housekeeper to their house in Madeira: ‘… seems a clever enough woman in her station, and I’m sorry at the account she gives me of their extravagant expensive manner of living. Mr Smith, ever since James Duff left the Island to his return, lived in a continual scene of feasting and ostentation beyond all bounds, and far exceeding what it was when directed by Duff, who always lived as genteelly as necessary’, 14 October 1779 |