Correspondence of Lord Fife Correspondence of Lord Fife. Subject matter and correspondents include: 1779: Place-Military: Lord [Amherst] - majority for Captain William Duff; January-May 1784: Business: George Robinson; Election: Thomas Dunbar, A. Tulloh, George Dempster, Speaker of House of Commons; Family: Mary Duff, Robert Duff of Logie; Finance: George Duff; Local: A. Tulloh; Place: Alexander Duff of Housedales, John Duff, land surveyor of customs at Dundee; Place-Church: George Brodie - Elgin; January-March 1785: Estate: William Reid; Family: Jean Duff, J. Fife (mother), William Duff; Local: James Montgomery; Military news: George Napier - defence of Portsmouth from naval attack; Personal: Keith Urquhart, Charles Cordiner, Thomas F. Abercromby, George Keith, Lord Kellie; Place: Andrew Hay of Rannes, Charles Tait, William Rose, William Forsyth; Place-Church: Robert Wyat - Skene; Place-Military: William Illingworth; Politics: Claud Marshall for tobacco manufacturers in Glasgow; April -May 1785: Business: George Robinson, William Rose, David Souter; Election: John Ross, Lady Findlater, Andrew Hay of Rannes, A. Stuart; Estate: James Leslie; Family: William Duff, James Duff of Banff; Finances: Sarah [Sanson]; Local: Mrs. Black - mines on land bought from Brodie, John Ross, Aberdeen, Andrew Hay of Rannes; Personal: Charles Cordiner, J.C. Abernethie; Place: James Donaldson; Place-Church: Thomas Wilson - Macduff; Politics: John Aitchison - distilleries; February-March 1785: Politics- Depute as Controller of Excise: Arthur Duff (brother), William Pitt and Mr. Hamilton; March-May 1785: Surgeoncy at Fort George for Mr. Roy; Place-Military: Alexander Urquhart, Isabella Roy, George Napier, Robert Adair, Sir George [Young], Sarah Napier; November 1791: Family- death of Duff of Hatton: Helen Duff of Hatton (mother), William Leslie of Hatton, James Duff, Jean Hay. 1779