WCP6807

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April 30, 1871

Dear Sir

The meeting of the members of the Land Tenure Reform Association¹ tomorrow is chiefly for formal purposes; but the public meeting which I mentioned to you in my last letter, is to be held on Monday evening, May 15, at Freemasons Hall, and the list of speakers is very good. While I regret that you are [2] not willing to be one of them I very much hope you will be able to attend.

Your name and advice are of so much value to the Association, that it would not willingly lose you as a member of the Council. The Executive Committee which will be chosen tomorrow to conduct the ordinary current business, will consist of a comparatively small number of persons, and though you [3] would have been most useful as a member of it, we have no right to ask you to take upon yourself that burthen

I am Dear Sir | very truly yours | J. S. Mill [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq.