The opinions delivered by those clergy it will be my duty, and I hope it will be my pleasure, to collect and to record. I propose also to invite the clergy who have not time or opportunity to speak in the meeting to write to me, and I will use my best judgment in selecting from their correspondence all that seems worth preserving. I am very sensible that this is a most delicate and responsible task that is laid upon me, and I wonder to find myself so engaged. It will need tact, discretion, and kindness of heart, and I trust I may be endued with the necessary qualifications to a much larger extent than I think I naturally possess. I find no small comfort at the foot of the first page of the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies." There I feel I am at one with you. Ever affectionately yours, F. A. MALLESON. 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. 15. _September 9th, 1879._ There is absolutely no debate possible as to what usury is any more than what adultery is. The Church has only been polluted by the indulgence of it since the 16th century. Usury is _any kind whatever_ of interest on loan, and it is the essential modern form of Satan. I send you an old book full of sound and eternal teaching on this matter--please take care of it as a friend's gift, and one I would not lose for its weight in gold. Please read first the Sermon by Bishop Jewel, page 14, and then the rest at your pleasure or your leisure. _No halls are wanted_, they are all rich men's excuses for destroying the home life of England. The public library should be at the village school (and I could put ten thousand pounds' worth of books into a single cupboard), and all that is done for education should be pure Gift. Do you think that this rich England, which spends fifty millions a year in drink and gunpowder, can't educate her poor without being paid interest for her Charity? * * * * * At the time of writing this the following letters passed between Mr. Ruskin and myself:-- 16.