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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 3745/7/3/24
Alt Ref No10/6
TitleLetter to Dr Andrew Gordon, from John Miller, reprimanding him for not writing more often to everyone
Date11 August 1766
Extent1 item
DescriptionLetter to Dr Andrew Gordon, St Croix, from John Miller, London, reprimanding him for not writing more often to everyone, wondering at the speed with which Gordon left England, as a position was soon to be open to him, clear that St Croix is not what Gordon had hoped, Reid is back in Scotland and might call at St Croix on his way back to Jamaica, and try to persuade Gordon to go with him, ‘The Youth your namesake that went out with you I find has catch’d the Infection (or is dead) for his friends have heard nothing of him and they are very uneasy, pray write about him in your first Epistle to me’, sending ‘a few Magazines for your political amusement’, debts owed by Andrew’s brother Francis, sorry that some of their friends are not married, 11 August 1766
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