Schön welcomes the production of a journal other than the Friend of Africa, reports that his vocabulary and grammar of the Hausa language would be finished completely in eight or ten days, suggests that her observations on the similarities between Hausa and other languages should be inserted, and asks her to let him have them as soon as possible. He and his wife would be leaving at the end of the month or beginning of Apr and he had written to Sierra Leone about the arrowroot and leaves and flowers of the bean tree.