| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie from Alexander Grant of Tochineal, Cullen, thanking him for his help for Tom, delighted that Tom has now improved so much, sale of meal, Sir James Innes has not paid his debts but now wants to sell a third of his estate, Alexander Gordon’s daughter is a success with Lady Glassaugh but is still an expense, he has visited Letterfourie and worked out the matter of Logie’s mysterious bill, ‘please excuse Logie’s oddity and forgive his folly, he has a sort of sense, but is no ways calculat for business’, sorry that Gordon has not been able to come north, Rannes is thinking of selling his estate, melancholy incident in Lord Findlater’s family, ‘The Lord Deskford had two sons who set out with him and Lady Mary about two monneths ago upon a tour of visiting in the south country, had been at Aberdeen Montrose Perth Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow &c and in the home coming his second son John was taken ill twixt Huntingtower and Innerwharity a Gentleman’s house in Angus where they went that night. Phisicians were called to attend him but he dyed the third day of his feaver’, 15 August 1763 |