| Description | Letter to Anne and Susan Gordon from their brother Francis, Portsmouth, regarding their uneasiness at his return to Denmark, has no wish to go back there, hopes only to see them all settled in their old age, he met with a Russian squadron at Copenhagen and was engaged their commander Admiral Elphinston to conduct the fleet to England, which he has agreed on condition he will be first lieutenant, very rough passage but now hopes for a command, ‘the generality of the Russian officers and sailors are extreamly ignorant in marine affairs, which together with my name being Gordon, makes me much esteem’d amongst them’, a friend of his in St Croix is dealing with their affairs there, not expecting to sail until March, 18 January 1770 |