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

Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.

Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.

Asks for some statistics about gas production.

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].

Hopes WK will come soon to Fife.

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

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

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

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.

Will lay WK’s paper on the economising of fuel in gas works before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts when it meets the following winter.

Asks WK to send the new measurements of the Eildon terraces. RC has found terraces in Fife.

The Glenroy terraces match WK’s measurements of the terraces on the Tweed.

Would like to spend the following Tuesday reviewing the Eildon terraces with WK.