Louth, 17th June 1846

Louth, 17th June 1846

My Dear Sir,

            I duly received your note of the 13th on my arrival here yesterday. You must not consider me as preferring complaints against your honourable house, or your own corner of it, whilst expressing a concern about meeting an engagement, and a heavy expense to be incurred, through changes made in arrangements. I am aware, as I have said, that you are as it were forced into these awkward circumstances from time to time against your better judgment and previous preferable arrangement. I may say too, that I carefully sympathize with you in the troubles you are often put to to make things quadrate agreeable to the wishes of all our friends. Be assured that, in my movements, I shall do my utmost to meet every engagement entered into, but see no harm in expressing a little difficulty when it arises.

            You will be glad to learn that the difficulty in question has been nicely got over. I have written to the parties, and all is so arranged as to avoid the heavy expense of a private conveyance for a long distance, the matter which was the burthen of my complaint.

            I suppose you are nearly melted, some of you, in that there Earl Street House, by this hot hot weather in addition to the heat of your overburdened minds and bodies with business. We have plenty of heat here, and one gets a good broil in driving over the hot and dusty roads in the hottest hours of the day, the time generally when one is obliged to travel. But O how blessed it is to be engaged in the holy Bible work which God has given us to do. May God gave unto us all richly of his Spirit for his own glory, and for our usefulness and comfort.

            Believe me, My Dear Sir,

                        Very Truly Yours,

                                    James Thomson.