The Rev A Brandram No.18
Mexico 11th March 1828
My dear Sir,
Your letter of 20th December only came into my hands a few days ago, the packet being unusually late this month. I had anxiously looked for your letter, as I expected by it some account of the shipment of the 1000 Bibles and the 1000 New Testaments voted me by the Committee in reply to my letter of July last. I was therefore disappointed in observing nothing said as to the shipment of these or when I might expect them. My last letter will have informed you of my being again in this city, and only waiting this supply to set out again a second journey. I thought these Bibles would have arrived in January and that I should have had two or three months of the dry season to go about in distributing them. The season is now far advanced and no accounts have yet reached me as to their coming.
Next packet however is now looked for every day, and it is probable that I shall hear something satisfactory regarding the Bibles in question. There are I understand two ships daily expected from London and in one of them I hope is the shipment looked for. The wind in the Gulf of Mexico has been very unfavourable of late. On 29th, February, when the English packet came in, the New York packet was in sight. She was driven back, and has not yet been heard of, and no vessel I hear has entered the harbour since that time.
I enclose you a Bill for £500, and also my accounts made up to the 10th current. I expect in a few days to have an opportunity of writing you again and shall then notice the subjects referred to in your letter. In the meantime I remain,
Truly Yours,
James Thomson.