London, 4th December 1850

Mr Hitchin

16 Harpur Street

            Wednesday Morning

Dec 4/50

My dear Sir,

            Please to send the parcel here by the Van.

            Thank you for the 500 Test. to Mr. Saviñon. Let them be addressed to him, and consigned to Manning & Co.

            I am sorry you have less favourable accounts respecting Mr. Brandram. May God graciously hear our prayers for him, and raise him up, and speedily. Please to keep me apprised of any important changes in his state for worse or better. I shall hope for the best.

                                    Yours Very Truly,

                                                James Thomson.

London, 23rd January 1851

16 Harpur Street

            23rd January 1851

My Dear Friend,

            I enclose you a note from a missionary to Africa, and whom I intimately knew many years ago in Jamaica.

            I should feel glad could you make a grant of the number of Bibles and Testaments mentioned, or give them at a very low rate, as I am sure they would be put to good account and in connexion with a Mission that has much to struggle against, and is sustained by a body in Scotland that is very friendly to us.

            The Books should be early forwarded to Liverpool, according to the address given.

            I was truly sorry I could not be at the funeral of our late dear departed friend,[1] as I was on that day in Lincolnshire.

            I hope you have good strength for all your present duties. Wishing a continuance of it, with every other blessing,

            I remain,

                        Very Truly Yours,

                                                James Thomson.

[1] Andrew Brandram died in Brighton, 26 December 1850. (BM)