WCP2659

[1]¹

3, Stroud Green Road

Finsbury Park Buildings

London, N.

May 13^th 1884

Dear honoured Sir,

As a feeble token of the admiration I feel for your conduct as Organiser of the Nationalisation of the Land Society, I beg to send you my book of Du Peuple² where I advocate the same principles.

Mons Eugène Simon,³ to whom I communicated your appreciation of his Essay as it appears in Mr Smith's pamphlet, felt gratified by your notification, & I am sure you will feel gratified also in learning that he in common with some friends is about founding for France a society on the same basis as yours.

[2] A same conviction on this all-important subject seems to spread & conquer all serious philosophers & as they will have a host of settled powerful interests to contend with during all their ^long struggle, it is good, I think, that they know a little of each other in every land, & should be enabled to send to one another the warm greetings of a co-religionist[.]

This I do ^{towards you honoured Sir} in my name as in the name of the future "Nationalisation of the Land French Society."

Yours very truly | R. Delaune⁴ [signature]

P.S.

I have just seen Thomas Spence's⁵ Lecture of 1775. Allow me to point to you another 18^th century English book whose total or partial reprint would contain the views of your Society. "W^m Ogilvie's⁶ Essay on the Right of Property in Land London⁷ 178." (I forget the date)[.] The British Museum possesses several copies (one of which bears Ge Washington's autograph signature on 1^st page). Why was he not convinced? (R.D.)