8 Ellen Key George Washington, whose name he gave one of his sons. He expressed his Hberal ideas in the then radical Aftonposten, to which he was an occasional contributor, in the latter part of the year 1840. During his years of civil service in Stockholm, he enjoyed the society of men of letters, and his taste for art and litera- ture became further developed. In 1848 he bought Sundsholm, and later enlarged this country-estate by considerable purchases of adjoining land. In the many communal tasks entrusted to him he found a suitable field of activity for his energy. The confi- dence he thereby inspired showed itself when he, at the time of the adoption of the new constitution, obtained a seat in the Second Chamber, as representative for Tjust County, a place which he kept until the Riksdag of 1883. He had for some time thought that a new Agrarian party was necessary for the solution of the important problems of land- taxation, measures of defence, etc. At the first Riksdag of the new Government, this party was formed by Emil Key, Arvid Posse, a few other noblemen, and several promi- nent farmers. Through Key's influence the party was led to take up wider social ques- tions. He was a good speaker and a truly