| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, regarding letter from Betsey Herries, charge for the laird’s mahogany, ‘You have doubtless ere now received the Capitals for the Columns, and Capitals indeed they are with a witness, will you believe it when I tell you that Henry’s Bill of them comes to £16 less 1sh. Nothing has vexed me more than this … as to the Black Dots for the Lobby, which I chuse to have, and a Chimney or two if necessary, better care shall be taken’, cross again at Alexander’s failure to answer questions or letters, ‘it would be obliging therefore if you would take a bit of a note of any little query I make, and just hint concerning it as laconickly as you please’, 2 August 1774 |