[Thomas Waters to his parents]
[from a transcript] 23
Boston. 6 May 1848
Dear Father and Mother
I hope you have not been uneasy on my account as I have not had a chance to write to you before, for I wanted to tell you all the news I could at once and I waited from day to day until it has amounted up to rather too long a time. We had a very fair passage to America only a few gales, since my arrival here I have been helping to rig a barque and provided I had been a few days sooner I should have been mate of her, but however I am mate in another smart craft and I think I shall get on pretty well if all things work well, I am quite well and comfortable and hope all of you are the same perhaps I may again be in Liverpool within a few months. I hope Uncle, Aunt and Cousins are all well; I am only making a scroll of this letter after all for the Captain and some of his friends are alongside me in the cabin taking a nip of hot not tea and they are bothering me to take some too and for the sake of peace I am obliged to conform. I got two of the letters you sent to St Johns last Autumn. England seems to be the only place that I cannot get on in. I wish all my friends were out here. There has been a great many vessels lost last Winter and some lives lost. I am in the employ of Mr Dakin & Sons and the direction for me will he to their care
Digby
Nova Scotia
B.N.A.
I hope Mary is quite well and happy and all the rest. I have no news to send you. We have been in Boston five days and I have not been off the deck farther than the wharf, in fact we are very busy and the only time I have is at night. Hoping my Dear Father and Mother that you are quite well and my brother and sisters.
I remain
Your affectionate son
Thomas