| Description | Letter to Anna Gordon from her brother Andrew, St Croix, recommending the bearer, Captain James Dunbar, as a friend and bringer of news of her brothers, in order to counter her accusations of not writing enough, he ‘expects to find in you the austerity and illnature of an old maid, or the gloomy stare of a superannuated Nun, but I hope he will be disappointed’, 30 July 1767 |