| Description | Letter from Andrew Gordon, London, to his mother, announcing his safe arrival in London, his aunt’s good health, visit to their cousin John [Gordon of Glencat], his wife is not as ill as they had thought, Mr Miller has sold their cloth for a good price, no letters from his brothers, his brother Alexander’s intention of settling his affairs in Copenhagen and going to ‘one of our new islands’, his own problems in recovering money due to him for military service, ‘My friends (those I mean whom I used to call by this name) are now so divided by interest, governed by fear, or attached to faction, that I have nothing to expect from them. The Town is so crowded with unprovided military people, Physicians, Surgeons, etc, that I can see no probability of doing any thing in this place’, his intention of going to St Croix, no hope for a cure for Wilson, no settled lodgings yet, 17 March 1763 |