M. K. GANDHI,
Attorney,
21-24, Court Chambers,
Johannesburg,
15th August, 1910
To
COUNT LEO TOLSTOY
DEAR SIR,
I am much obliged to you for your encouraging and cordial letter of the 8th May
last. I very much value your general approval of my booklet, Indian Home Rule.
And if you have the time, I shall look forward to your detailed criticism of the
work which you have been so good as to promise in your letter.
Mr Kallenbach has written to you about Tolstoy Farm. Mr Kallenbach and I have
been friends for many years. I may state that he has gone through most of the
experiences that you have so graphically described in your work My Confession.
No writing has so deeply touched Mr Kallenbach as yours; and, as a spur to
further effort in living up to the ideals held before the world by you, he has
taken the liberty, after consultation with me, of naming his farm after you.
Of his generous action in giving the use of the farm for passive resisters, the
numbers of Indian Opinion I am sending herewith will give you full information.
I should not have burdened you with these details but for the fact of your
taking a personal interest in the passive resistance struggle that is going on in
Transvaal.
I remain,
Your faithful servant,
M. K. GANDHI
Tolstoy & Gandhi, p. 68