WCP1526

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12, Cayton Crescent,

Hampstead

July 18 1888

Dear Sir

I have always read many papers by yourself & others in the Nationalization of the Land and though I am no believer in any [1 word illeg.] by tinkering[?] the laws while the people remain unconvinced. In clan[?] sense[?] [1 word illeg.] that you have got hold of a indeed[?] [1 word illeg.]. Nil I hardly the [1 word illeg.] I can help you in advance the [1 word illeg.]. I am not as [MS illeg.]cuted with the actual[?] [1 word illeg.] [2] life — Jefferee’s[?] wife have [sic] helped you — in hardy[?] might but[?] I cannot — and below[?] can[?] you of any[?] [1 word illeg.] and this realization I [1 word illeg.] a vast[?] gulf[?]. How are you going to push[?] across it? [1 word illeg.] not the land owned[?] but all hollows[?] of humanity[?] — of many kind write h[?] arrayed as wi[MS illeg.] you and — [1 word illeg.] felt like sewal[MS illeg.] — [1 word illeg.] this dependent-upon [2 words illeg.] class. Therefore[?] I read your paper with great interest[?] & to[?] for[?] [1 word illeg.] modutued[?] — with apparent & cruscent. [2 words illeg.] with you have for[?] years next [2 words illeg.] —

I remain dear the truthfully yours| Walter Besant¹ [signature]