He describes an interview with Lord Howick, who warned him about the dangerous climate in Sierra Leone but seemed to be won over to his view on the value of commerce in the end, another interview with Palmerston, and their advice first to present an outline of his pamphlet in Jul, when they would have time to consider it during the vacation and then to prepare the pamphlet for publication by the end of the year. He was delegating this task to her, stipulating that she should first outline the conditions of the slave trade and gain public sympathy and then appeal to reason with the advantages of commerce. He also describes an interview with Sir Robert Inglis, in which he briefed him on the case for commerce so that he would not make a false move when putting his Motion in a few days' time, even though did not have time to master the subject sufficiently to advocate it. He also mentions a visit to Porter, at the Board of Trade, who had promised to provide him with information on African trade and was publishing a book on the progress of Society. He writes of a visit by some merchants to tell him the difficulties they were encountering in the appointment of a new Governor for the Gambia and the opinions he expressed on the most recent nominee, which he expected to involve him in a challenge to a duel from him. Finally, he deals jocularly with his wife's plans to travel and his greater fear of her ire when he suggests that he should remain at home to write his pamphlet than of the challenge from Captain Hawkins.