He describes the change in their slave trade expedition plans after hearing that they would be unable to get a steamer in time for Nov sailing and the alternative scheme as outlined in his letter to Trotter. He tells her of his proposed return to London, where he might need to stay until Saturday if Lord John Russell needed to see him. He also writes of the affection he had for her and for the late Sarah Buxton and his wish that she should be able to reconcile herself to her loss. He suggests that he might be able to leave [England] earlier than at first planned and asks if she too could be prepared to leave earlier. Finally, he inquires whether she had been able to draft her section about the moral horrors of the slave trade.