[Letter to] an Unidentified Correspondent

　　　　　　　Sept. 16, 1858

Sir
      I have received
your note on the subject of
a meeting to be held in
October “to inaugurate the
union of the middle and
working classes” for the
promotion of Parliamentary
Reform.
      I beg to say in reply
that I have not seen
any scheme of Parliamentary
Reform intended to unite
the middle and working
classes, which I approve
sufficiently to desire to
promote it. In none of them
is the franchise grounded
on an educational
qualification; they all
deny votes to women; and
they all involve, as a
primary condition, the ballot,
to which I am on principle
opposed.	I am Sir,
　　　　　　　　 Y[ou]rs faithfully
　　　　　　　　　　　　　J.S.Mill