I am convinced that the effects of enabling the common labourer to acquire property must be striking, and must often have been an object of your contemplation.
In making any statement of these facts, you will probably think it right to mention some particular cases, with dates, names, and accounts of the quantities of lands, the nature of the improvements, &c.
In the reports of the "Society for bettering the condition of the Poor," there is one made on this minute plan of Lord Winchelsea's grants of land to cottagers, which conveys very full and useful information.
I trust to your kindness, and believe me
Your obliged,
H. Davy.
The following letter was written by Davy after his return from an excursion to that beautiful district, the north-west of the county of Somerset.
TO THOMAS POOLE, ESQ.
October, 1804.
MY DEAR POOLE,
I returned to town a little while ago, not sorry to see the great city of activity and life; not sorry to see it, though I had just spent two months in enjoying a scenery beautiful and, to me, new; in witnessing much hospitality and unadulterated manners, and in gaining much useful information.