Life with the Jacksons and their ten children pleasant in country home in the woods. Unlike at other plantations, “servants” [slaves] “live well here...not a harsh word said to the poor things.” Servants are permitted to socialize with each other when day’s work is done. Likes country social life among Alabama gentry. Thinks ARW would do well as Engineer and Surveyor in Montgomery.

Lists 90 insect specimens sent in box of duplicates, including some to be identified and a series of Aphodius from the Brecknockshire Beacons; describes insects and plants collected there; plans for an insect cabinet and thorough study of a few (Coleoptera) families. “Best capture” was the “most beautiful” Trichius fasciatus, the Bee Beetle.

Have been surprisingly unsuccessful at collecting many insects, despite being constantly outdoors in the Welsh countryside this summer doing surveying work. Paucity of insects to collect. List of duplicate specimens ARW could have if he likes; located and bought copy of Shuckard's "Coleoptera," an illustrated treatise on beetles.

Exchanges and trades insect specimens with other collectors; very slight difference between Donacia impressa and D. linearis; planning design of a new insect cabinet; Mr Kirby's cabinet; Ray Society publications; butterfly Colias hyale.

Acknowledges arrival of beetles from Bates; design and costs of crafted insect cabinets and storage boxes. “Have you read [Chambers’] 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' or is it out of your line?”

Insect cabinets and boxes; opines that "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" is “ingenius [sic] theory” supported by “striking facts” but “remains to be proved” by more facts about “progressive development of species”; Lawrence's “Lectures on Man” interesting on formation of human races; Pritchard's physical history of man; distinction between species and varieties in man; Humboldt's "Cosmos" supports similar theories.