Rev A Brandram
Edinburgh, 8th May 1845
My Dear Friend,
Yesterday's communication will inform you of the state of our concerns here so far, and so far rather encouraging. It seems our anti-friends, contrary to our hopes, have judged it right not to be silent. At our public meeting we were all careful to shun everything that could displease those disinclined to us, but it seems the very act and fact of our appearing publicly to advocate the cause of the British and Foreign Bible Society is considered reason sufficient for a kind of denouement. Such came out in yesterday's paper, and I enclose a slip containing it.
It will not be answered by my part, unless you express a wish to that effect: perhaps others may answer it.
I remain,
My Dear Friend,
Truly Yours,
James Thomson.
