A regular feature was publication of letters received by people in Britain from friends and relations who had settled in South Australia.
[2] A paragraph in the Record of (perhaps) 8 May 1839 contained a candid appraisal of one of the South Australian Company's representatives in the colony, which drew the ire of Robert Torrens, who recommended to the Governor that he publicly disown the statement as an "error" on Capper's part.
[3] Rather than submit to this insult, Capper resigned from his position with the Colonization Office,[3] but continued publishing the Record.
In 1840 Simpkin and Marshall produced a booklet in which large sections were copied from How to Get to South Australia.
These combined the functions of a bookseller with that of a shipping agent, and provided access to emigrant guides, pamphlets, journals and colonial papers.