| Description | Letter to George Riddoch, Canton, from Robert Gardiner, Macao, sorry to have missed him, on his way to Bombay, happy with his situation there, no news from home for a long time, particularly looking for news of his brother John, intending to travel back to the Malabar Coast on a Portuguese vessel as neutral ones are safest, fears his wife might have left for her health before he reaches there, 27 December 1782 |