| Description | Notebook belonging to John Gordon. Inscribed in flyleaf ‘Waste- Book No. 1 belonging to John Gordon Esq.’ (90 folios). Contents include: dated entries of payments made and received, with comment; lists of books, manuscripts or transcriptions bought, with prices, travelling expenses; advances to wife, transactions with Patrick Sandilands concerning affairs in Aberdeenshire and also connected with the Barclay family [a few additions relate to the period up to February 1766].
(Notebook bound in leather and measuring 13.5 x 9 cm). |