Letter: R. Maughan, Excise Office, Edinburgh to. R. Wharton Duff, Orton by Fochabers Gives further report on Mrs Wharton who had another attack of her illness, and of other members of the family; reply to D.'s last memorial to the Treasury is still awaited; asks if further approach should be made by him and by the Board of Excise regarding salaries. [With cover]. 18 December 1815