Part 18

Philadelphia, 17th June, 1834.

My Dear Sir,

Allow me to introduce to you a friend and countryman, Mr. Robert Heywood, a very respectable gentleman from our native town of Bolton, who is on a tour of pleasure to see this great and good country, and who intends to visit an old countryman in Lexington, Kentucky, if he be still living there. Have the goodness to make Mr. Heywood acquainted with Mr. Clay who probably may know his friend in Lexington, and please introduce him to any other of our friends with whom he or you may wish him to be acquainted. These favours with any other kindnesses you may render to our friend will oblige very much your sincere friend

THOS. HULME.

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Philadelphia, 18th June, 1834.

To Mr. JOHN HULME.

Dear John,

The bearer, Mr. Robert Heywood, is from the town of Bolton, in our native county and is on a tour of pleasure to see this great and good country. Thee will show to him the L. & P. Canal and thee will give him some idea of the quantity of merchandise which now passes through it, compared with the merchandise on the river ten years since. Thee can make him acquainted with some of the good men in Louisville not forgetting our good old country folks Mr. & Mrs. Keats, to whom give my best respects. Thee will make him acquainted with some of the best offices, of the best steamboats on the river, so that he may be well treated. Thee will also give him good advice so as to enable him to avoid as much evil and to enjoy as much comfort and happiness as possible, and by so doing thee will oblige very much thy truly affectionate father

THOS. HULME.

FOOTNOTES:

Liverpool.

Richard Watson (1781-1833), Wesleyan Minister.

Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834) accompanied Hugh Clapperton the African explorer on his travels and wrote accounts of these.

Adam Fergusson.

Dead-lights = strong shutters made to fit the cabin window to prevent the water entering in a storm.

A fish caught on the rocky shores of New England (Tautoga Americana).

See a description of this phenomena in the Nautical Mag. Oct. 1832.

Grampus, a fish similar to a whale, but carnivorous.

Presumably Basil Hall (1788-1844) who wrote books of his travels.

Frances Trollope (1780-1863) wife of Thomas Anthony Trollope, writer and novelist; visited America 1827-30.

Founded in 1831 by Étienne Girard, a native of France, for the education of orphans.

Richard Crook, a friend.

Andrew Jackson, President, 1829-1837.

William Tipping, a director of the L.N.W. railway in England.

Pishey Thompson (1784-1862), historian of Boston.

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 1801-1825.

Since removed as unsafe.