William Hitchin Esq.
Madrid 27th February 1849
My Dear Sir,
I have been about to write you for some days, or rather weeks, intending to enclose my letter in one to Mr Brandram. My materials for his letter however are still incomplete, and now I think it better not further to delay my note to you. I hope to write Mr Brandram, that my letter may be with him for the second Committee Meeting of March. Please mention this to him.
My first request to you is, that you would have the goodness, as soon as you receive this, to transmit to Mr McLean, No.1 Milne Square, High Street, Edinburgh the sum of Five Pounds, placing the same in my Private Account.
My second request is, that you would favour me, as soon as you well can, with the various items of my General and Private Accounts, that I might look them over, and write you about them in time for the closing of the same on the 31st of March. I wish to know exactly how I stand in order to regulate my drawings connected with my arrangements.
You say in your letter of the 20th of December, that you had received the Bill of Lading of the case for me from Halifax, please to say whether the case itself has now come to hand, and been delivered as directed.
The Cape newspapers came to hand all right in due time, you need not therefore hesitate in future to transmit papers, posting them as before directed.
You can notice also in your reply to this the contents of my letter of the 8th January.
You will get a note in reply to the one enclosed very soon after transmitting it. Please wait for it, and enclose it in yours.
Did you get my letter for Mr Saviñon, Mexico? - and did the Will I sent you in June last reach you? Please say. Believe me
Yours Truly,
James Thomson.