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Meredith, Gloucester

2^nd. June 1882.

My dear Sir

Many thanks for your book on Land Nationalisation.¹ I have just finished reading it, and I quite accept its general conclusions, for which I was somewhat prepared by the study of H. George's² "Progress & Poverty",³ read on board ship while returning[2] from South Africa.

The indictment against landlordism is complete, and if the Irish people can only succeed in breaking its yoke from off their necks, they may yet give the lead to their patient and docile fellow subjects on this side of the Irish Channel.

In Denmark much of what you suggest has been recently done, with the happiest results, as I pointed out in an [3] article⁴ last year in the Fortnightly Review of July.

"Free Selection" is the law in Australia generally, although the conditions there are so different from those of Great Britain that the two cases can hardly be compared, and the Colonies have not guarded themselves properly against the ultimate rise of landlordism.

I hope to run down and visit you at Godalming, perhaps on Sunday week, but I will send a post-card. I return to town on Monday next.

Yours very truly | David Wedderburn⁵ [signature]

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