REV. AUGUSTUS JESSOPP TO A.R. WALLACE
Scarning Rectory, East Dereham. August 25, 1893.
My dear Mr. Wallace,—I have put off writing to thank you for your kind letter, and the book and pamphlets you were good enough to send me, because I hoped in acknowledgment to say I had read your little volumes, as I intend to. The fates have been against me, and I will delay no longer thanking you for sending them to me.
I do not believe in your theory of land nationalisation one bit! But I like to see all that such a man as you has to say on his side.
In return I send you my view of the matter, which is just as likely to convert you as your book is to convert me.
I love a man with a theory, for I learn most from such a man, and when I have thought a thing out in my own mind and forgotten the arguments while I have arrived at a firm conviction as to the conclusion, it is refreshing to be reminded of points and facts that have slipped away from me!
It was a great pleasure and privilege to make your acquaintance the other day, and I hope we may meet again some day.—Very truly yours,
AUGUSTUS JESSOPP.