HA 161 - Letter with pen and ink haeding from Jean Cathcart, St. Margaret's

The letter describes the work of the railway surveyors and illustrates their progress with a blue line. ‘We have just heard that Mr. Trotter of Morton Hall discovered that his house was on fire just as he was handing the last lady into her carriage after a grand christening of his younger daughter, where fifty people were present. Mr Campbell of Succoth was mounting his horse at the time and galloped to Edinburgh and in an hour afterwards he sent the fire engines which soon extinguished the fire which had been caused by making too great a dinner..