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  <dc:title>Letters with instructions to Stewart Souter at Duff House from Lord Fife</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letters with instructions to Stewart Souter at Duff House from Lord Fife, some with enclosures, place and date of writing endorsed by Lord Fife. Enclosures:
Business: James Laidlaw - on contested claims, and asking if he may go as far as £9000 for Balmoral
Estate: W.L. Brown - requesting extension of lease on houses in Castle Street Aberdeen; James Stuart - on the behaviour of the troops quartered at Braemar: they have drunk more than £200 worth of whisky since their arrival, and some of the Braemar ladies are expected to follow them when they leave</dc:description>
  <dc:date>February 1798 - March 1798</dc:date>
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