From Edmond B Sayers

E.B. Sayers | No 11 Charlton Terrace | Woolwich

My dear Jack

I am very much obliged for the papers – Letters Nos. 1, 3 & 4¹ – I did not get No. 2. Capt. Stothend² desired me thank you in his name for them – but he says that it would be very easy to disprove every statement in the first one (he has not read the others yet) and that it is some person not on the Survey he is convinced who writes them! Is there a No. 5 yet? I hope they won’t stop, with the discharging match. Did you get the paper safe? I can’t go to London on a weekday to buy nice paper, so I hope that will do, it was the smoothest I could get here.

I hear Parker is going to Liverpool, under Hamley, he is foolish to leave Preston, I think. His mother says he is very lonesome without me.

Banister has got a situation in Blackburn £2.2.0 a week – no great things after all. How is the country? any fear of a rising? ‘Put your trust’ in Providence and keep your powder dry’.³

Anything doing about the petition to the Master General?⁴ or is it dropped? after all the trouble and expense you have been at, I wish you had all your money in your pocket, and that the devil had the M.G.⁵ by the nose.

So you are going over to the repudiating gentlemen?⁶ I am sorry you should be thrown away on them. I hope your sister⁷ has quite recovered her health. Poor Dan!⁸ he is in a fix I think, will he get out of it think you?

Does George⁹ ever hear from his lass,¹⁰ remember me to G-e-o-r-g-e – Tell Fill¹¹ Miss Simpson¹² is as large as life – I hope he is [too].

My paper says stop. If you should come in this direction before you are transported, I will give you ½ a bed and 10/11 of a feed for a month with a 100.000 welcome (that should be in Irish).

Yours as ever | E.B. Sayers | 26th Jan.

RI MS JT/1/TYP/11/3859

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