Longing for a letter from WK. Describes various excurions through Fife.

Responds to WK’s article ‘The latest Geological changes in the south of Scotland’ (Kemp 1843).

Describes the fire at the gas works in Cupar.

Has been on visit with Hugh Miller to Dura Den.

Encloses a copy of his lecture on the geological history of the south east of Scotland/

Has got in a controversy about tar burning with a man from Musselburgh.

Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.

Asks for some statistics about gas production.

Hopes WK will come soon to Fife.

Mr Matheson will set out for London on 8 July [presumably 1844]. It would give the writer much pleasure to see Mr M and the addressee [presumably William Kemp].

Sends a proof. [Presumably Observations on the latest geological changes in the south of Scotland by William Kemp, Galashiels, 1844.]

Thanks for the publication, which he has read with pleasure and profit.

Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.

Intends to visit the following week and requests WK’s company rambling across the Meigle Pots.

Asks for assistance investigating raised beaches on the river Tweed around Galashiels.

Thanks for the observations WK has sent.

Thanks for WK’s letter of the 27th. RC has examined the country between Melrose and Kelso.

Thanks for information about Yarrow terraces. Does not think WK’s objections to the lake theory of Upper Tweeddale insurmountable.

Requests the measurements of WK’s Eildon Terraces be sent to RC at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.

Thanks for the measurements of WK’s Eildon Terraces, but would like the measurements of the beaches below No 9 more precisely.

Thanks for the measurements of the intermediate Eildon terraces.