I shall with pleasure enrol my name in your league, and J trust that your efforts in this direction may be as successful as they were in 1898 in getting imperial penny postage established, which has proved such a boon to the Empire.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson sent the following lines:
Dear Henniker Heaton
You never are beaten,
But stick to your project like bricks,
And this your last dream
Most worthy I deem,
So my name you may freely affix.
What a world it would be,
Which some may yet see,
When a penny such wonders will work,
And think of our delight
To write day and night
To American, Frenchman, or Turk,
What scope there will be
For fellows like me
To send letters, and poems, and stories,
Including full streams (reams)
On that best of ail themes,
A tremendous abuse of the Tories,
But dear Mr Heaton,
This world you will sweeten
By the project you now have in view.
It is perfectly clear
'Twill bring nations near,
And what better thing can you do?
