| Description | Letters to Susan and Anna Gordon from their uncle R. Gordon, hoping Susan is in good health, ‘what you did to the recovering your money from your cousin Isabel (who has played the fool in her marriages and manadged her affairs very ill) on the contrary to give me offence was very agreeable … Tell your mother … that her Sister in law never having spoke to me since her Husbands death, I did not chose to trouble her with my letters, for she is not here but at Sens twenty five Leagues from this she scarcely ever spoke to your Brother Sandy, but as I hear she has been very generous to your mother …’, then to Anna describing the hardships of his life and work, warning her against Dorlethus, ‘a very dangerous young man’, ‘I am very glad your brother Sandy proves dutiful … Francis when he returns from Guardalup [Guadaloupe] will I hope show some generosity to you … I send you by the Bearer the prettiest thing I had by me, I mean a snuff box of Chagrin and Silver’, 20 August 1761 |