 He soon found suitable employment and the Blackets relinquished their plans to travel on to New Zealand.Blacket was an enthusiastic writer, leaving a shipboard journal in the form of an ordinary school exercise book and sending many letters to his family in England, and to his children, particularly his youngest daughter Hilda, to whom he once sent thirty stamps, as an encouragement to write back.In 1849 Blacket assisted his cousin Thomas Blacket Stephens in his immigration to Sydney.