He tells of James Stephen's enthusiasm for the cause and his promise that there should be Protectors of Aborigines in all the colonies - all this being a result of her paper prepared in the cottage at Northrepps, which had exposed the infamy of British conduct in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. He asks for some information to be sent to Andrew Johnston and mentions his visit that day to the Wesleyan Missionary Society to persuade it to repudiate a letter from Shrewsbury on pain of his withdrawing his subscriptions. He reports on his meeting the previous day with Lushington and his day's work. He mentions the probability that he would be defeated at the next election.