| Description | Letter written by Forbes Mitchell, Walkers Hotel to Charles Gordon of Buthlaw, by Fraserburgh. He has obtained huntsman and horse for Gordon; lad should arrive by 15 May and horse is to be led north to Aberdeen by one of Skene’s servants with saddle. Comments on news of taking of Seringapatam, death of General Meadows and wounding of Lord Cornwall, and taking of ‘vacant gown’ by Pitfour. Mitchell is to travel north with Skene. |