Mr John Jackson
St. John, New Brunswick 22nd May 1841
My Dear Sir,
Many thanks for your note of the 18th March which was received on the 24th April. The letter your promised me by next packet has not yet reached me. Probably it is lying in Halifax, from which I expect letters soon.
I seize this opportunity to make one particular request, which is, that you would be kind enough to see that my letters are not addressed to the care of anyone, unless I especially mention it. In consequence of some being addressed to the care of Mr. Black in Halifax when I was in Montreal they were delayed for a fortnight; and more or less inconvenience of the same kind has a different times happened from this mode of addressing them. I always mention to what Post Office I wish my letters addressed, and with that Post Office I correspond, and receive my letters regularly, except when taken out by some person in whose care they are addressed.
Hoping soon to receive your expected communication,
I remain, My Dear Sir,
Truly Yours,
James Thomson.