Letter from A.V. Dicey, Oxford, to Lady Laura Ridding, 1911 March 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Sending her his book "on the development of English Law and Public Opinion during the Nineteenth Century", noting that it serves to show "indirectly the extraordinary rapidity with which Socialistic and Protectionist opinion has developed during the last 13 years", that the "substance" of the book was previously delivered in his lectures at Harvard in 1898, and that, while his own opinions may not have changed since that time, "as a description of the state of English Opinion, much of the book is clearly out of date."; Dicey adding that he has drawn strength in the "strictness" of his "Unionist Creed" by approval of Laura Ridding's father, concluding that "We have a hard battle before us, but it is our own want of faith, & want of Union, which alone inspires me with fear of defeat."