| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from his nephew Patrick Duff, Calcutta, mentioning the death of his wife to whom he had been married for two years, bills, hopes of promotion but the general has been ill, his brother William is well but has not yet become a cadet, asking if that can be done from Europe, sending his half-pay to his father and asking to be told if his parents need anything, asking what his brother John needs to be set up, strange revolution in Madras, he thinks both parties were in the wrong, ill on return to Bengal, sending compliments to brother and a cask of pickled mangos, trying to help the son of the minister of Fordyce but it is hard to get him a commission, 24 November 1776 |