Letter from Robert Young Pickering, Conheath, Dumfries to Robert Young, Haywards Heath

Has been gathering resources, as well as ‘two old roads’ that he wrote half a century ago, draft letter written to ‘the Engineer’; negative comments regarding John Wesley Hackworth; suggests that John Wesley Hackworth made ‘atrocious’ statements about Stephenson stealing Hackworth’s ideas, does not want to be associated with him, describes a speech by John Wesley Hackworth; describing an article in ‘the Engineer’ ‘The draft is a type of Mr. J.W. Hackworth’s particular method of controversy which has, a I consider, damaged beyond repair, or almost beyond repair, the fair fame of his father’; John Glass; asks not to quote him or his paper "along two roads"' in book, does not want to be part of any controversy.