To John C. Gray,
Professor of Law in the University of Harvard.
Downing College, Cambridge.
21 April, 1901.
My best thanks for Future Interests in Personal Property, which has just come to my hands on my return from the Canaries. For a few days my interest in it must be future, but will be vested, indefeasible, real and not impersonal.
Yours in perpetuity,
(Signed) F. W. Maitland.