The letters, said the Lincoln friend, were long, "containing full accounts of his discoveries." His mother treasured them till she died, when they came into the possession of a Miss Calder.

She kept them in a box, and used occasionally to amuse herself by reading them.

But some time before 1852 Miss Calder went to the box to look at them again, and found that they had disappeared.

Whether she had lent them to some person who had failed to return them, or had mislaid them, is unknown.

It is possible that they may still be in existence in some dusty cupboard in England, and that we may even yet be gratified by an examination of documents which would assuredly enable us to understand more of the noble soul of George Bass.
It has been mentioned that Flinders and Bass did not meet again after the voyage of the Norfolk and Bass's return to England.