| Title | 5 September 1873
Copy or opening of letter by W Longsdon, Longstone 5 September 1873 to [J B Smith] - `Dear John'. Writer delighted that he is well again and regretting that writer cannot accept his kind invitation to Kings Ride again; cannot do so without subjecting friends to much disagreeable trouble and incurring for self risks of a painful and serious nature. Few things give more pleasure than talk with him, remarking on immense changes social, moral and political in world since they began to feel themselves interested in its affairs. Still greater changes will probably occur in next 50 years and meditating on moral principles, question of future existence, and question of compensation for inequalities of conditions and intellect. |