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1851-1860

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To EDWIN CHADWICK,1 [10 AUGUST 1857]

Envelope only, text from facsimile in International Autograph Auctions online catalogue, December 2015.

Date: PM 10 August 1857; obliterator ‘73’ (London West Central District Office, WC).

1. Edwin Chadwick (1800-90; Dictionary of National Biography), social and sanitary reformer. Friend of Jeremy Bentham. Worked for improved conditions of employment and sanitation. Member of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers 1848-9, tasked with inquiring into sanitation in London. Commissioner of the General Board of Health 1848-54. Founding member, along with CD, of Administrative Reform Association; see CD's speech of 27 June 1855 in The Speeches of CD, ed. K.J. Fielding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960), pp. 197-208.