He reports that the luncheon at the Brewery had just finished, that all the guests had sent messages to her, and that Trotter had reported that the machine she had recommended for enabling them to jump over the rocks was too heavy to succeed. He tells her that Washington had been assigned to a ship, that they would therefore have difficulty in producing the Friend of Africa, and that it would help if she could occasionally produce an article for it. He writes that he was a little better but needed more Northrepps air, that the expedition would sail about 25 Mar, that they were to have luncheon on board the 'Albert' on the 19th, and that all the officers would dine at Samuel Gurney's to meet Elizabeth Fry on the 22nd. After that, he and Hannah would return to Norfolk.