He hopes that one day he might himself visit either the Niger or the West Indies, best of all in the company of Joseph John. He remarks that what he had valued most of all in his work for the slavery question was the support he had had from his brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. He reports on the ordering of the steamers and the appointment of officers to lead the expedition, the interest shown in Jamaica and Antigua, and the possibility that indigenous people from those places might be employed on it. He admits to being impatient at the delay in publishing his book, describing the amount of work he and Wiseman had done on it before he left England, the way in which Priscilla had set about improving it, and his hope that the Americans would publish this new version of his book rather than just the first volume. He suggests that Joseph John might need to give encouragement to this project and that he himself was prepared to finance it, admitting that he could hardly call the book his in view of the amount contributed to it by various members of the family. He writes that 5,000 copies were to be printed as soon as the government embargo on publication was lifted and that he would send copies immediately to him and to America. He promises to ask Edward to send him copies of extracts from some of his former letters describing their journey to Rome. He contents himself with describing the good being done to Hannah by her holiday in Rome, the effect on Anna of Sarah Buxton's death, describing it as more than widowhood, the enjoyment of Sarah Gurney and Chenda, Fowell, and Charles of their stay in Rome, and his wish that Joseph John's children Anna and John Henry could have accompanied them. He laments his deficiency in foreign languages, general culture, and eye for nature, which all the Gurney family had in abundance. He marvels at what Rome must have been like before the Goths and other conquerors of the Dark Ages had ravaged it, since the remnants were so magnificent, deploring at the same time the cruelty of the sports in the Colosseum. He mentions their original intention to convert the Pope to the cause of abolition, undeterred by his own lack of Italian and the Pope's lack of English, only to find that in answer to the first representation made to him [by England] the Pope had already issued a Bull denouncing the slave trade and its abettors. He tells him that the Pope had just given permission for him to see the prisons in Rome and that he would have to 'brush up his prison-fancying lore'. He repeats the story he had heard of Rachel Fowler's kindness to Lady Cullum when they were travelling on a steamer in Germany and the latter was taken ill. Finally, he says how glad he is that they would meet again at Earlham the following autumn. Hannah Buxton adds a postscript thanking him for the gift of 200 dollars towards the publication of the book and expressing the hope that it would work great changes in the hearts of men and that Joseph John might also move their hearts on the subject of slavery and the slave trade . (Memoir, p. 463 .) (Copy.)