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After Tolstoy Farm was founded his son, Ali, came to live at 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>Gandhi letter to Kallenbach<note type="scholarNote">In this letter Gandhi formally accepts Hermann Kallenbach’s offer of 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. Kallenbach,</salute></opener> <p>I have shown your kind letter to Mr. Cachalia<note type="scholarNote">Ahmed Mohamed Cachalia was an Indian merchant in South Africa who was an ally of Gandhi’s and joined his nonviolent civil disobedience movement to protest the Asiatic Registration Act in 1910. After Tolstoy Farm was founded his son, Ali, came to live at Tolstoy Farm.</note> and other fellow passive resisters, and I have to thank you for your generous offer on their and my own behalf.<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. 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> I accept your offer, and I need hardly say to what extent your offer will relieve the financial pressure.</p> <p>As to the improvements and additions referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of your letter, I shall keep an accurate account which shall be open to your inspection, and I shall not undertake improvements or additions without your approval.</p> <closer> <salute>I am, Yours sincerely,</salute> <signed>M. K. Gandhi<note type="scholarNote">On this topic see also the letter from Kallenbach to Gandhi and the essay "Mr. Kallenbach's Offer."</note></signed></closer> </div> </body> </text> </TEI>
