| Administrative History | Lord Adam Gordon was a son of Alexander Gordon, second Duke of Gordon. He was M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1754 - 1768 and for Kincardineshire 1774 - 1788 and was commander of H.M. forces in Scotland 1782 - 1798. In September 1767 he married Jane (or Jean), daughter of John Drummond of Megginch, widow of James Murray, second Duke of Atholl. She died in 1795. His sister, Lady Katherine Gordon, married Francis, de jure 7th Earl of Wemyss, in 1745. Henry Dundas (1742 - 1811), to whom most of the letters are addressed held office during the period of this correspondence as Lord Advocate, Treasurer of the Navy, Home Secretary, President of the Board of Control and Secretary of War. |
| Source | The manuscripts were bought from B. Halliday, bookseller, Leicester, by J.M. Bulloch, London, in 1926, and were presented by him to the University Library in 1928.
The papers were presented by Bulloch; John Malcolm (1867-1938); literary critic. |