| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from his brother Alexander at Letterfourie, in three stages: regarding quality of oats delivered by McKilligin, provision for Dr Strachan’s son, now in London, request for pease, ‘As crocus baggs are of no value here will it not be better to send a finer stuff or rather the best kind of hemp bagg from Thames Street. The worst kind is worthless’, delivery of a new chaise from Edinburgh, which he does not yet intend to use because of government duty and a lack of good horses, approval of Colquhoun Grant as an agent but also using Speymouth’s son, ‘they are all equally exorbitant in their charges’; the matter of the estate of Buckie with reference to a possible future harbour there, ‘Such places, you know, are always very prolifick, and abound with children’, possible settlement regarding the Daugh of Hilton (rentals enclosed), illness of Christie; asking for a London paper to be sent, 18, 22 and 24 January 1783 |