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Heineman, T.W., to [Chas. Kerr], May Walden correspondence, 1906

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Title Heineman, T.W., to [Chas. Kerr], May Walden correspondence, 1906

Creator Walden, May, 1865-1960

Date 1906

Language English

Subjects Depressions, Mothers and daughters, Socialist Party (U.S.)

Description Forms part of the Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription 849 Lincoln Avenue Pasadena, Cal. Dec 18/1906 My Dear Mr. Kerr, I mail my Christmas greeting to you early, because near the holidays the mail delivery usually becomes very irregular & I would rather have you get this a day or two early, than too late. I read & thank you very much for your kind answer to my enquiry about theFitch? publication. I have also received the printed matter you mentioned & perused it with much interest. I am now past the allotted 3 score & ten, but I cherish the memory of yourself & wife, as lovers of humanity among the brightest & warmest recollections of a long & eventful life. For a number of years, I have at Christmas evidenced my affectionate remembrance to a small circle of friends, by a few lines of doggerell of which the enclosed are a sample & which they appreciate, not because the lines are worthy of it, but because they feel kindly towards the writer. This year I have ventured to include you & Mrs. K. in this circle. Please forward the verses to Mrs. K. & please read them yourself for they will show you, my attitude towards Socialism. I am in full accord & sympathy with the ideals & with the theory of socialism & with its propoganda. I believe in universal voluntary cooperation & in public ownership of the resources of nature & means of production. But I have no use for the Socialist ?prognosis?, which proposes coercion by violence if necessary of the minority, by a majority, even if it be but of one vote. I believe such a majority, if suddenly placed in control of all political

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Archival Collection Title May Walden papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Walden M Box 1 Folder 38

BibID 991703478805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020, Transcribe: complete

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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