Correspondence - Callendar Estate matters
Maker
William Forbes
Production date
22 Jan 1784-23 Dec 1784
Description
Letters to William Forbes of Callendar, in Edinburgh and London, from James Forbes, his brother at Callendar House, reporting in detail on estate matters including problems with colliers, relations with the Carron Company, collecting debts, illegal woodcutting and other matters
4. enclosed letter from Alexander Dickeson, Falkirk
8. criticism of Sir Thomas Dundas
10. collecting debts "Forty shillings of the money were in halfpence. He made a boy carry them home for me"
22. choosing a maidservant
23, 30,36,41. furnishing the house, furniture being dearer in Edinburgh than in London, and second hand almost as dear as new
31 opening the house and using servant's hall as a kitchen
34 enclosed letter from Sir Alexander Livingston, asking about East India Company cadets
35. wall-paper
38. visit from their mother
43. luxuriant crops on former dunghills in highest land
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