
Luke Batterham
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Dickens was a tireless organizer of benefits and petitioner on behalf of the families of dead colleagues (often a good excuse for amateur dramatics): he was at the times of this letter busy raising funds for his old illustrator George Cattermole who had died that July leaving a widow and seven children; Leigh Hunt had been an earlier beneficiary. See illustration on preceding page.