The Charles Dickens Letters Project

Period: 
1851-1860
Theme(s): 
Urania Cottage

To GEORGIANA MORSON,1 OCTOBER 1851

Envelope only.
Text from facsimile in International Autograph Auctions online catalogue, Aug 2017.
Address: Mrs Morson | Urania Cottage | Near The White Horse| Shepherds Bush
Date: PM [day illegible] Oct 18512

  • 1. Georgiana Morson, née Collin (1817-80), matron of Urania Cottage (the home for homeless women established by CD), 1849-54: see Pilgrim Letters 5, p. 509n, and Jenny Hartley, Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women (London: Methuen, 2009).
  • 2. There are two weak postal cancellations on the recto and verso, of which only Oct 51 can be read.