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

$1000 in 1876 represented a large reward (about $35,000 in today’s money adjusted for inflation) but Thomas Jackson was understandably desperate to catch whoever had wiped out his business for the third time.

We have no information that the culprit was ever found