Item Info

Accession Number: 80-1000
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Boulogne, Tuesday Tenth October 1854
My Dear Wills.
H.W.
You may have seen a letter, published in the Times a few days ago--a letter on sanitary subjects--signed "A Civil Engineer".  Evidently written by some malcontent, retained by the bad water companies--since distinctly denied as to a positive assertion of fact, by a man at Dartford--and replied to again today, by Farr.  The whole communication being a desperate effort to bolster up the sinking villainous system.  --I particularly wish you would cut out all appertaining to this, and put it in Morley's hands, together with everything and anything that may follow on like subjects, entreating him to lose no occasion of giving us a serviceable article on homes and health, and furthermore urging him to keep his eye on those Sewers Commissioners, who in a World of balderdash, really talk more rotten filth, and let their Engineer write more and sit on all manner of dregs and hear more read, than all the Sewers of London contain.  Take care Godwin does not anticipate us in these useful duties.
I set my heart on doing the real good of not allowing the remembrance of the cholera to die away, even in the louder miseries and appeals of War--under which (it needs no foresight to perceive ) the Do Nothings will endeavour to shelter themselves for the next ten years.
   MYSELF

MssDate: Tuesday Tenth October 1854
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Fragment.  Record created by BZ.

Recipient: Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880
Provenance: Gift of MacManus, Jan 80.

Bibliography:

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, Volume Seven, pages 435-436.

Country: Country:France
City/Town/Township:Boulogne

Call Number: DL W685 1854-10-10
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870