| Description | Letter to Janet Riddoch, Gosport, from Miss C. Brand, Hampstead, regretting that she will not see her but explaining that the room is not ready, glad that the ships did not sail earlier because of the weather, Miss Uppleby has probably lost her father and her fortune, Mrs Riddoch’s daughter is doing well, hopes Mr Riddoch is not going to China as three years is too long to be away, March 1781 |