Pimlico
I do not know to whom this letter was written.
Hotel de L’Europe, Brussels,
30th July, ’40.
My Dear Sir,
The grief and anxiety I have suffered have brought upon me an intermittent fever and various concomitant evils amongst which has been an affection of the face and eyes. Had this not been the case I should have written to you ere I left England, although it has cost me a great effort to write to any one. I am now a good deal better and will immediately correct the proofs I have received; but for the future will you tell Mr. Shaw to send the proofs in as large a mass as possible, addressed as follows and given in to the French diligence office, à Monsieur G. P. James chez M: C. A. Fries, Heidelberg en Basle, aux soins de Messrs. Eschenauer Cie, Strasburg, Via Paris, Pressé.
This is a somewhat long address, but if it be not followed and the proofs be sent by Rotterdam I shall never get one half of them till two or three years after, for such was the case with many proofs of Edwd. the Black Prince.
Any letter for me you had better direct at once to me “aux soins de Sir G. Hamilton Seymour, G. C. H. Brussels.” When I am a little better I will write you a longer letter telling you all our movements and also what progress I have made in my plan for stopping continental piracy; in which if you will give me your assistance and influence I do not despair of succeeding although the Government will do nothing. I have already made some way for I can talk without using my eyes.
Yours ever faithfully
G. P. R. James.