Lot 187
Dickens, Charles
Auction: 8 September 2010 at 12:00 BST
£750
Description
Autograph letter signed, to Henry Morley "Here is another letter on the last subject. It seems to be a Devil of a Society at correspondence, and I hope it may be equally energetic in all its other provinces..." Tavistock House, 24th April 1854, one page
Footnote
Note: The Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by G.F. Storey, 1993, volume 7, page 323. Henry Forster Morley (15 September 1822 – 1894), contributor to Household Words and All the year round, was the author of many articles on social deprivation including The quiet poor which described the apalling living conditions of St. Philip's Shoreditch, a slum parish in Bethnal Green.