Jane Lushington gives Vernon some family and domestic news, noting that she has been putting away his law books ‘& all the Voltaire in its right order & number I have put into the book case in my little room! & you have now lots of empty space.’ She concludes by saying that she had planned to take the children to the Bensons but Minnie Branston arrived ‘& so I sent the children & she drove me to the Bach.’

About the Seton Karrs; mentions their ‘bad books’ eg JJ Rousseau and Voltaire and others; describes move to Howrah to their own house; her husband Edmund’s character, housekeeping; no boat exists between Howrah and Calcutta, crossing is by steamer of ‘dingy’ [sic, dinghy] or ‘greenboat’, and that to use small boats you are carried on a small barrow across the mud; mentions Peere’s engagement. With envelope.