From Leonard Horner 15 July 1845

My Dear Sir

I thank you for your short useful address of the 8h Inst, and am rejoiced that you are determined not to desist. Apply the principle of Nasmyths Steam Hammer in driving piles, great repeated blows of great weight at short intervals, & you will drive your arguments more surely into the stiff clay minds of the landlords. I wish in your next you would give some good blows to the hard political economists who will always move most considerations out of their view, as if they are the dealing with brute matter. I am quite willing to meet them on their own ground of productiveness, and maintain that the [illeg.] man will be the more productive labourer. His morality I assume to be mainly implanted by a judicious education. and a man who is taught to be provident & sober and economical of his time will produce more, & not less, & consequently increase their disposable surplus - to say nothing of the productiveness of an intellect called into reading instead of being allowed to lie dormant. I hope to hear that you have got the 40 cases. What a thing to say - a tenant of 23 acres not able to read or write! What would they say in the United States - a New England to this!

faithfully Yours

Leonard Horner