Webster assures GW she needn't worry about the parcel she sent. He describes his dislike of travelling by train. Suggests GW find warmer accommodation & wrap up well.
John Webster talks about the weather (foggy, cold), then about the recently-formed Rifle Corps and the "expected invasions" (which never materialized).
Blathwaite patches up his relationship with GW, talks about plans for moving house and denounces a false rumour that the President steamship, lost at sea, was safe. Lord Fitzroy Lennox, son of the Duke of Richmond,was among the passengers.
Unsigned letter acknowledging [James] Buchanan's receipt of a book from Miss Webster. Buchanan's identity is ascertained from the York Place address; see, e.g., The Miscellany of the Woodrow Society, p. 644, which places him at that address.