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Accession Number: 87-114
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

                                                                                     Devonshire Terrace/Eleventh of May, 1850. Sunday

My Dear Sir
I have thought a great deal about that woman, the Wardswoman in the Itch Ward, who was crying about the dead child.  If anything useful can be done for her, I should like to do it.  Will you bear this in mind, in confidence, and if you can put me in the way of helping her, do me the kindness of telling me how it can be best done?  I am not afraid to ask you, because I have an inward assurance that you will understand me?
Without identifying the Workhouse, I have written a fanciful kind of description of our Walk, which you will  find at page 204 of the enclosed proof. Will you return it to me, whenever you may have had leisure to read it? I hope it will not remind you, disagreeably, of this day Week. 
                                                                                                                     Faithfully Yours
Jacob Bell, Esquire                                                                                        Charles Dickens

MssDate: Eleventh May, 1850, Sunday [sic]
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
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Notes:

Referring to an article in Household Words, May 25, 1850, I, 204.
"A Walk in a Workhouse"
Describes CD's visit to an unnamed Metropolitan workhouse.

Recipient: Bell, Jacob, 1810-1859
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. D. Jacques Benoliel, 12/56

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Six, 1850-1852, p. 99.

Country: Creation Place Note:Devonshire Terrace
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Call Number: DL B413 1850-05-11
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author