Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday; referring to the interview with ARW ("The Spectre of Poverty", 6 Jan 1913) published in the Daily News & Leader and reminding ARW that they had met forty years earlier at a meeting in London with Dr Nichols and others; the writer's life and wages in fifty years spent as a gentleman's servant, bringing up a family without debt, his current pension of five shillings a week; abstinence from alcohol and tobacco; proposal to walk to Poole to visit ARW, giving details of other long walks he has done about the country lecturing on teetotalism and selling his booklet A View from the Servant's Hall, chopping wood, picking oakum etc. to pay his way; asking if ARW would pay him to travel the country selling his (ARW's) book [Social Environment and Moral Progress] March 1913) and preaching "Personal Self Home Rule", Mr Crofton Gore of Bristol will give him a reference; a poem "Courage, Brother" setting out his personal rule of life; his pamphlet "Great Britons [sic] Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" which he proposes to sell with ARW's book; his great-grandfather's estate in Galway and Dublin; father's death from drink and mother's long life supported by her son; most poverty traceable to drink; apologies for the quality of his writing paper.