Ever affectionately yours,
F. A. Malleson.
[27] At Liverpool and Brighton.
13.
Brantwood, September 5th, 1879.
I shall be delighted to have the comments, though it will be well first to have the series of letters done—the last but one is coming to-morrow. I have only written them in the sense of your sympathy in most points, and am sure you will make the best possible use of them.
14.
September 7th, 1879.
It is rather comic that your first reply to my challenge concerning usury should be a prospectus of a Company[28] wishing to make 5 per cent. out of Broughton poor men's ignorance. You couldn't have sent me a project I should have regarded with more abomination.
[28] A projected Public Hall.