Thomas wrote this letter to his mother and father, Thomas Sr & Elizabeth Waters, shortly after he became a teenaged apprentice on the whaling ship Barque Fawn. You can faintly see the sketch of the ship he drew in the center of the page.

Thomas wrote this letter to his mother and father, Thomas Sr & Elizabeth Waters, shortly after he became a teenaged apprentice on the whaling ship Barque Fawn. You can faintly see the sketch of the ship he drew in the center of the page.