He advises them to work hard and record what they had learned in their common-place books so that they would be able to draw on them at need. He mentions that he had just been walking and talking with Priscilla and that whenever he needed to clear his mind and brighten it, nothing was as effectual as an exchange of ideas with her. He asks them to tell the ladies at the Cottage of his appreciation of their paper on the Xhosa people and to ask Christiana to look up some references for him in the works of South or of Hopkins. He suggests that they might ride to Sheringham to tell the family there all the news and adds that he was pleased to have had Edward at the House of Commons the previous night as it ensured he had one auditor.