Ambassadors' Notes are commentaries added by the original founders of the Thomas Jackson letters and are intended to add context to the transcription that proceeds them. Other comments by visitors may have been offered in Recent Research and Commentaries in the seventh panel of the homepage.

Ambassadors’ Notes

Thomas Jackson had lost all his buildings through floods in January 1841 and again in September 1859. Now in June we get the impression that flooding cold be a problem throughout the year.