| Description | Letter to George Gordon from his cousin John Gordon of Glencat, London, telling him that Reid and Geddes left him for a Banff ship the previous day, ‘I have great expectations from Mr Geddes, Mr Reid seems very god natured but entirely ultramontagne nothing is well written, nothing good but what is the produce of Italy’, determination of George’s nephew Andrew to go to St Croix, no time to write to Miss Anna at Fochabers nor to Mr Hay, anti-Catholic prejudice in the army, Mr Geddes forgot to bring George’s brother’s watch from France, 2 August 1764 |