He suggests that the members of the African Civilization Society be provided with a summary of the plan he proposed to adopt for benefiting Africa before they read his other papers. In discussing the letter Trew proposed to address to Lord Stanley, he criticises his plan to exchange 'civilized' Africans from the West Indies for Africans newly arrived from Africa on the grounds that they could have no assurance that the latter would not be procured as enslaved people because, as yet, they knew too little about that continent. He argues that the Dutch King might have originally intended that only volunteers be recruited for his army but that scheme had ended in a system of slavery. It would be impossible for Britain to object to any other country acquiring such recruits if it adopted similar system for providing the West Indies with labour, and if Cuba thus provided itself with labour there would be no way of ensuring that any safeguards against slavery they promised to impose would be observed. He also argues that the Africans would be confused by their demanding abolition of the slave trade at the same time as requiring them to supply labour for the British colonies. He persuades him that it would be premature to ask Lord Stanley to send a mission to the Igbo before the school in which the missionaries were to be trained had even been established.

He warns that America and Portugal would refuse to join the fight against the slave trade and would become even more suspicious of Britain's motives if Trew's plan were adopted. He reprimands him for including an attack on Knibb and the Baptists in his letter to Lord Stanley and declares that he did not see why Trew felt impelled to write the letter to Lord Stanley, especially at that time. Referring to his letter to the Bishop of London and the clergy of England, he agrees that it was desirable they should support the cause but he would be very surprised if they did so. Finally, he apologises in case he had said anything that might upset Trew. A note refers to No. 93 & 93a L.C. (Copy.)