| Description | Letter to George Gordon from his cousin John Gordon of Glencat, London, regarding accounts, ‘How should I know who was to pay for Mr Frazer or who payed for letters I know I pay for them and am heartily wearied of it’, arrival of Mr Reid’s trunk of books, ‘if they had gone to the Custom House he had enough of trinkets to condemn all the books in the world. The Portmanteau is not arrived but has been robbed by the ships crew … the books in the Trunk are many of them spoiled sticking together and very ignorantly paqued … let Mr Smith settle this with Mr Reid that I may not be out of pocket and Imposed on by every idle Triveler’, 11 July 1765 |