| Description | Letter to Anne Gordon from George Hay, Aberdeen, regarding his own health, hoping she will be happy in her new home (Walkerdales), Miss Michie’s ill fortune, the possibility of Gordon of Letterfourie approaching Chancery on her behalf to enquire into a claim on someone’s estate, only that Chancery ‘is one of the most dilatory courts in being; causes are detained there for 20, 30 and sometimes more years’, death of Meighan bankrupt many years ago, ‘Glencat himself several years before he died had given up all correspondence with me; for upon marrying his servant maid, after his first wife died, he lost all regard from people in my way in London’, 29 January 1787 |