<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:97e80654-5ef5-4f17-8b5f-172f8c3c513f" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 class="chaptertitle">Chapter 7</h1> <p class="center"><em>Lt. James Fletcher</em></p> <p class="center"><em>Onboard HMS</em> Dolphin</p> <p class="center"><em>London</em></p> <p class="center"><em>April 26,1807</em></p> <p class="timebreak"> <br/></p> <blockquote><p class="left"><em>Miss Jacky Faber</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="left"><em>c/o Ezra Pickering</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="left"><em>Union Street</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="left"><em>Boston, Massachusetts, USA</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="timebreak"> <br/></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="left"><em>Dear Jacky,</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="timebreak"> <br/></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="first"><em>I write this in great haste and I do not have time to tell you exactly what has happened, but suffice it to say there have been changes in the Admiralty and great aspersions have been cast against your good name—and mine.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="follow">Please, I beg you, do not depart Boston just yet, as you would be in great danger should you arrive here now.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="follow">I have to make this letter short, for I must post it immediately and make myself ready. I have received word that I am to be arrested within the hour.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="timebreak"> <br/></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="first"><em>Hoping to God that you have not yet left, I remain, etc.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="timebreak"> <br/></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="first"><em>Jaimy</em></p></blockquote> </body> </html>