Dunlop, W(illia)m B.: East Lothian, (Scotland) to Monsignor (Robert Seton: Edinburgh, Scotland), 1889 September 6

Before he learned that (Seton) had bought "Tranent and its Surroundings" Dunlop had ordered a copy for him; he requests (Seton) to take a duplicate home as a momento of one of those episodes in his life which he will always look back on with regret that it was so short. He asks (Seton) to accept 3 articles he has written on China. In these days of the worship of gold, it is a pleasure to meet someone who places Mammon on a footing so inferior to the claims of descent from those who helped to make Scotland what she is. He is enclosing a letter to his cousin Miss Cathcart. Her grandfather Lord Alloway is buried inside the "Auld Kirk" of Alloway. If his cousins are home (Seton) will have a good Scottish welcome. Another cousin William Hamilton Dunlop is the proprietor of the next estate. There are still many things he would like (Seton) to have seen. He would like to drive him from Seton to Haddington via Redhowse Castle and back by the coast and Port Seton Harbor.