My Dear Sir,

I have just finished my paper.²

It remains to be fair-copied, but that will take only a few days. It is longer than I expected, facts have such a habit of accumulating, but I have made it as succinct as possible.

Shall I send it to you or to the Society? In the event of your wanting to read it might I suggest that I could save you the labour by reading it to you. I shall be in town on Friday night, having to lecture on Sunday, and I could bring it with me to Down on Saturday forenoon and read it to you. I need not say how much I should like to have your opinion of it. I think I could read it in an hour to you but I trust you will not bore yourself with it. The abstract which will accompany it will give you most of the conclusions.

Yours truly, | Lawson Tait