| Description | Letter to Ann Gordon from her brother Francis Gordon, London, regarding his health in the West Indies – fever, ague, ‘my old distemper the rupture, which occasiond my wearing a trust for several days, delays to their voyage not his fault, the best way to send stockings to Sandie, how to manage his crew – ‘it’s my maxim always to make them love me and fear me at one and the same time’, use for linen sent by sister Susan, no news from brother Andrew, 21 August 1761 |