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DICKENS (CHARLES) Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens"), to Samuel Robert Starey, Secretary of the Field Lane Ragged School, seeking further information on his Ragged School: Devonshire Terrace, 1 February 1844
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
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'I CAN TURN ANY RESULT OF YOUR EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION OF THESE UNFORTUNATE CREATURES, TO THE ACCOUNT YOU WOULD DESIRE' – Dickens acts as spokesman for the Ragged Schools.
On 11 April, Samuel Starey, with three others (a woollen-draper, a dealer in second-hand tools and a city missionary) held the inaugural meeting of what was to become the Ragged Schools Union, at which they decided upon having a public meeting in order to determine local interest and research feasibility. Like the previous lot, this letter is published in the Pilgrim Edition and is sold to benefit Livability.





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