Excerpt from A Pilgrimage of British Farming, 1910-1912

My Dear Beaven,

To whom but to you should I dedicate this account of our joint wanderings. For, as I read them afresh, I am always being reminded, sometimes of your methods of dealing with barley problems, the rigour of which may well put us professional men of science to shame, sometimes of the acuity of your criticisms of the work of the same class of pundits. But most of all I think of you as one of the last defenders of the old laissez-faire position, a latter-day Athanasius, standing for self-help and honest individual work, and denouncing Government Department, Country Councils, Development Commissions, and all such spoon-feeding agencies, until that ancient thruster - the old Leon Bollee, would boil over with the combined fury of your driving and your arguments! May it be granted to us to review our opinions, years hence, over the same ground!

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