WCP1397

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Private

Berkeley Lodge

West Hill, Putney SW

Sept[ember] 4 [18]85

My dear Sir

I have just returned from abroad, and found your letter. I have long ago retired from the Fortnightly Review, and the last number of Macmillan’s Magazine for which I am responsible, is already made up. I have no means therefore of ensuring the publication of your essay.¹ You are quite right in thinking ill of the pamphlet form, and I should think that you would have no difficulty in securing the insertion of your [2] article in either the Nineteenth Century, or the Fortnightly. It will certainly give me great pleasure to have an opportunity of considering your speculations. You take a wide range of the causes of present trouble instead of the very narrow view to which politicians usually confine themselves.

Yours very truly | John Morley [signature]