| Description | Letter from Andrew Gordon, London, to his mother, though addressed to his sister Anna, complaining of having received no letters from her or from his brothers, ‘Your manual of devotions, dealing spoon, and Bureau Bedstead which I promised you … you may expect’, thinking of visiting his aunt at Sins but it would interrupt his studies, Goodwin of Jamaica is dead, ‘except one slave has left no property. I pity the poor Mother. I’m endeavouring to find out his Master now in town, and to get him to secure the Negro for her use, his value I'm told is about 30 or 40 £ sterling', ‘my only friend Lord Bath died a few days ago’, ‘you may tell Jean Young that her promising Grand Nephew Macdonald the Parson is one of the patients in Bedlam’, 11 July 1764 |