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

We would guess that TJ must have some specific involvement with the local Reading Fire department but we have no knowledge about what this might have been. We do know that he was constantly selling ropes to the Fire department and formed respectable relationships with the personnel because of this.