| Description | Letter to Anne Gordon from her brother Alexander, St Croix, acknowledging Anne’s letter telling him of the death of their mother, his regret that he had neglected her, the death of his own business partner, ‘To give you a just Character of Him, He lived hated by almost every man of his acquaintance, and dyed unregretted even by his nearest Connections: How base, how ungenerous his behaviour has been to me, God only knows. In a word he has left me, by way of Legacy, plung’d in a Lawsuit which has lasted for these two years past’, Francis is expected from Copenhagen, Andrew joins him in sending greetings to sisters and uncle, 14 May 1767 |