16 Harpur Street
23rd January 1851
My Dear Friend,
I enclose you a note from a missionary to Africa, and whom I intimately knew many years ago in Jamaica.
I should feel glad could you make a grant of the number of Bibles and Testaments mentioned, or give them at a very low rate, as I am sure they would be put to good account and in connexion with a Mission that has much to struggle against, and is sustained by a body in Scotland that is very friendly to us.
The Books should be early forwarded to Liverpool, according to the address given.
I was truly sorry I could not be at the funeral of our late dear departed friend,[1] as I was on that day in Lincolnshire.
I hope you have good strength for all your present duties. Wishing a continuance of it, with every other blessing,
I remain,
Very Truly Yours,
James Thomson.
[1] Andrew Brandram died in Brighton, 26 December 1850. (BM)