| Description | Letter to George Gordon from his cousin John Gordon of Glencat, London, regarding dispatch of bills and books, dispatch of something for Reid: ‘it made a horrid noise there. Mr Frazer was desired to stop him if he met him on the road and send him back to Paris. I assure you Frazer is a very pretty young man much more promising in my humble opinion than Reid, he is sensible of the deficiency of Roman education and wants to make that up by proper books’, charity for Mrs Clarke including educating her eldest son for the priesthood, charity for Mrs Thomson but not from Mr Fisher who can no longer afford it, ‘a good deal was saved and a good deal lost in Saxony owing chiefly to the late King of Poland’s death’, nephew on his way to St Kitts for St Croix, 6 December 1764 |