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.

Surprisingly the original letter that would have been published on 28th December does not show up in the online database for the newspaper. However, just hearing the response suggests that Thomas Jackson did not reserve his sharp criticisms for slavery issues!