Received copy of Smith's "Defence of the Church and Universities of England". Currently engaged in an "important Chancery-suit". Offers to show Smith the manuscripts of [John] Stackhouse. Wwriting a commentary on the reminiscences of Charles Butler, including Butler's opinion of Gray. Asks Smith's opinion on the 'Acanthus' of Virgil as described by Barker in the notes of [Charles] Symmons' [(1749-1826), poet and biographer] translation of Virgil. Comments on [Johann Heinrich] Voss's translation of Virgil and effect on opinions of German botanists. Sends two pamphlets, one against Blomfield and Monk, and the other on Greek independence.

Thanks Smith for pamphlet and papers on the Norwich Literary Institution. Offers to lend Smith Savi's 'Observationes in varias Trifoliorum species'. Remarks on Charles Butler [(1750-1832), Roman Catholic layman and lawyer]. Admiration for William Roscoe, desires to get him interested in Greek independence. Thanks Smith for his desire to assist in the Greek cause and suggests the establishment of a committee in Norwich to that end.

Manuscript copies, in Barker's hand, of a circular from a committee in Brighton in support of Greek independence, and of a letter received from William Thornton of Washington, USA, on the same.