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Hermann Kallenbach stepped up and in this way became the co-founder of Gandhi's second community, which they called Tolstoy Farm." }, "as:generator": { "@id": "https://leaf.bucknell.edu", "@type": "as:Application", "rdfs:label": "LEAF-Writer", "schema:url": "https://leaf-writer.lincsproject.ca/", "schema:softwareVersion": "4.1.0" } }]]> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF></xenoData></teiHeader> <text> <body> <!-- The div element provides a section divions, such as a chapter in a novel, scenes in an act, etc. In this case you probably have one div. --> <!-- You can give an element an attribute – think of it like an adjective for the element as a noun --> <div type="essay"> <!-- most divs begin with a head element, which usually provides the 'title' for the section --> <head>Kallenbach letter to Gandhi<note type="scholarNote">In this letter Hermann Kallenbach formally offers to Gandhi the use of his farm land for the creation of the Tolstoy Farm settlement. The letter is dated May 30, 1910, and was published by Gandhi in the June 11, 1910 edition of Indian Opinion.</note></head> <dateline> <title>Indian Opinion</title> <docDate>June 11, 1910</docDate> </dateline> <!-- In the case of a prose document, paragraphs are identified by the p element. Each paragraph should be 'wrapped' with p's --> <opener> <dateline>May 30, 1910</dateline> <salute>Dear Mr. Gandhi,</salute></opener> <p>In accordance with our conversation, I offer to you the use of my farm<note type="scholarNote">In Transvaal Colony at this time, only white persons could own land, thus Gandhi could not purchase land himself near Johannesburg, and needed help from a white ally. Hermann Kallenbach stepped up and in this way became the co-founder of Gandhi's second community, which they called Tolstoy Farm.</note> near Lawley<note type="scholarNote">Approximately 22 miles southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.</note> for passive resisters and their indigent families; the families and passive resisters to live on the farm free of any rent or charge, as long as the struggle with the Transvaal Government lasts.<note type="scholarNote">Gandhi and many of his coresidents at his Phoenix Settlement community had begun protesting the Asiatic Registration Act in South Africa in 1908. By 1910, many of them, along with many other Indians in South Africa, had been imprisoned for nonviolent resistance against this act. This left many of the protestors' families in dire financial straits as the protestors were imprisoned. Gandhi and Kallenbach decided to found a new community, which became Tolstoy Farm, on this land on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to be closer to the law court and prison there.</note> They may also use, free of charge, all the buildings not at present used by me.</p> <p>Any structural alterations, additions or improvements made by you may be removed at your pleasure on the termination of occupation, or they will be paid for by me at a valuation in the usual manner, the terms of payment to be mutually agreed upon by us.</p> <p>I propose to pay, at a valuation in the usual manner, [for] all the agricultural improvements that may have been made by the settlers.</p> <p>The settlers to withdraw from the farm on the termination of the struggle.</p> <closer> <salute> Yours sincerely,</salute> <signed>H. Kallenbach<note type="scholarNote">On this topic see also the reply letter from Gandhi to Kallenbach and the essay "Mr. Kallenbach's Offer."</note></signed></closer> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>
