She writes of the unexpected attitude of the House of Lords to the question, the support of Lord Sligo, the Bishop of London, and others for the agitation, the arrival of petitions, the Motion to be put in the House of Commons by Sir George Strickland and supported by Joseph Pease, and the consequent possibility of a majority in that House, as assessed by Lushington. She records Buxton's intention to act in the way that was best for the cause regardless of his own reputation and their own expectation that the great feeling in the country would also bring about his object of total freedom in 1840, or whenever the apprenticeship should end. She also mentions that Buxton had been completely engrossed in the slave-trade question and that they had intended to send Joseph John Gurney the heads of his proposed pamphlet but would not do so until they were more clearly defined. She explains his feelings that the treaties were at fault, that an attempt should be made to persuade France and America to join in a decision to put down the trade by force, by blockading the [Slave] Coast, making settlements at the mouths of rivers and opening up the rivers themselves to trade, and that if they would not participate Britain should attempt it by herself. She describes this as the bare outline of the scheme he was intending to lay before the government. (Copy.)