Following up with Cobb on the Flournoy affair, Crawford seeks to summarize his relations with Calhoun, distinguishing their personal feelings from the attitudes of their respective followers. He describes in considerable detail a conversation with Calhoun of 12 October, touching on prospects for the elections of 1824. He concludes: "It is certainly not my interest, that he should be unfriendly to me. It is not my interest that he should be irritated by my friends, even if he is unfriendly, as long as he does not openly declare himself against me."