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Re memorial to Thomas Hood.

Postmarked Maidstone. - Sends 'a scribble' for correction; no need to send a proof as he does not return until Thursday.

Including many letters re Thomas Hood and family, Fourierism etc.

[26] Pall Mall. - There is a great philosophical gulf between them: 'I believe in the Mystery of Evil as a Fact, & you do not'; Man is capricious towards lesser beings, but may himself be controlled by a superior will, known to the ancients as Fate and now called Providence; pagan and Christian notions of good and evil; Milnes saved from despair by belief in human progress, despite remnants of savegary; 'I & you are wheels which have our own function in the machine - let us go on regularly, & leave the rest to [God]'.

Thanks Ward for magazine and news of [Thomas] Hood; enlisting Lord Francis [Egerton?] was a good idea; sends newspaper account [no longer present] of Birmingham Athenic Institute, which would welcome copies of the magazine. Ward's otherwise striking Camberwell article gave the impression he had not met Susan Cleverly. [Meinhold's] Amber Witch is an obvious fraud; Fourierism is flawed in requiring to be understood as a complete system, for mankind lives on mixed crumbs of philosophy; 'All that's great & good in the world is got at indirectly by the masses - the Philosopher, of course, may hold the complete and abstract Truth'.

Will try to obtain papers of the Labourer's Friend Society for Ward's friend; success of the model lodging house; there will be no revolution in Britain: 'the poorest mechanics know the truths of the relations between labour & capital as well as the laws of gravity'; contrast with France; dismay here at sequestration of French royal property; fear that no private property will be safe; property should be secure whatever its value; missed M. [Coinderat?] when he called.