This letter was written on headed notepaper; the address shown in small capitals is followed by a series of dots, then ‘18’ and some more dots; the rest of the date is inserted by hand.

7, UNION TERRACE.                          ABERDEEN 14 Feby 1877. Dear Sir,                   I have received yours of yesterday. Helen Gordon may have been a daughter of Charles Gordon of Terpersie, and that Charles Gordon may have been, for ought I know, the very son of Gordon of Terpersie as I mentioned.1                 The descendants of those men- tioned in the Entail so far as I have ascertained are as follows. James Gordon the Entailer had three bro- thers and two sisters George, Henry, Patrick, Margaret and Barbara. George & his descendants are excluded from the Entail. Patrick died without issue, there therefore remain only three to be accounted for viz Henry Margaret & Barbara.         Henry died in 1787. His son Harry died in 1837. Mrs Fellows is his Heir.         Margaret was Mrs Brebner, she had a son James who had a son James Adam.         Barbara was Mrs Grant, she had a son Francis who had a son Sir Willoughby, who had a son Sir Henry who had a daughter Mrs Disney Leith.2                        Yours faithfully                                  Jas. Garden   William Leiper Esq        140 Bath Street                    Glasgow.

Notes

¹ This section has been scored out in pencil; when, why and by whom is not apparent.

² ‘M^rs Disney Leith’ was Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon, daughter of Henry Percy Gordon and wife of General Robert William Disney Leith, the hero of Mooltan, whom she survived.

James Garden to William Leiper