Regarding list of members on the Yorks & Durham committees. Forgot to send Raisbeck a copy but can collect one if desirable. Discussion of Tennant's report of his conversation with Langdale. Reference to the two parties applying to Parliament and relationships with the railway 'I cannot say if I had been a coal owner I would have entered into it most heartily, for my property would have been deteriorated to a certain share of the 2 or 3000 £ which want raising'.