| Description | Letter to James Riddel: "Dear Sir, I have received your esteemed favour of the 23rd April, we have gone over very carefully the account, and find the statement sent you on the 22nd February is perfectly correct, with the exception of the cargo for Margaret Littlejohn which is wrong changed by you, £9,,11,,3 would be the amount if the sleepers had been in the large size; say 2 feet cubic, instead of being the small size agreed for at 1 foot 3 inches, £2,,18,, 9 and a half is also a mistake that being the rate chargeable on stakes or temporary sleepers, the actual rate due will be on the number of sleepers onboard, say 710 stakes and 1960 stakes, £1,,12,, and a half or 1920 stakes at £5 you will therefore please make this little alteration and reind me the balance due, if you want any documentary evidence to prove the actual size of the sleepers by each vessel I will produce you a certificate signed by the Secretary Inspector and resident Engineer of the Railway Company here who received the sleepers, and further will produce you the invoices from the parties who supplied the sleepers, which surely must be satisfactory this would cause some little trouble and if it could be avoided should like it, but I am ready to do it if you wish, I do not understand what answer Mr. Angus can expect from me about the yard in the Inches you told me yourself when in Aberdeen last autumn, that the Harbour Trustees had not made up their minds about letting it out again. I told you I never had used it nor did want it, and having paid one years rent considered that matter settled. I am dear Sir, yours truly, Peter Saunders."
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