He mentions Joseph John Gurney's concern for his election prospects at Weymouth, his own half-serious plan for nominating Samuel Gurney to run in conjunction with him for the seat; the latter would only consider this if Buxton could guarantee he would not be elected, the aim being merely to make one of the Tory candidates withdraw. He announces that Parliament had been dissolved the previous night in Brighton and that it would be gazetted that day. He sympathises with her privations at that time and her discomfort because of the state of her eyes, and tells her that Sam had offered to subscribe £200 towards Andrew Johnston's election expenses. He informs her that he had booked a seat in the Dorchester Mail for that night and that he had arranged for her to receive the Herald newspaper at Lowestoft so that she could follow the election. The letter is crossed with a message from Edward Buxton to his mother about his father's arrival the previous evening at his house.