The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To THOMAS HODGKIN,1 [1839]

Envelope only.
Text from facsimile in Lion Heart Autographs online catalogue, March 2022.

Date: Handwriting confirms 1839.

Address: Doctor Hodgkin | "  "  "2

• 1. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866; Dictionary of National Biography), physician and social reformer; MD 1823, pathologist at Guy's Hospital. Hodgkin’s lymphoma named after him. Member of Senate of University of London 1837 to death. A Quaker and philanthropist; his course of 1829 lectures to Mechanics' Institute at Spitalfields published 1835, revised Nov 1841. Also wrote on cholera, medical reform, education and slavery. CD wrote to Hodgkin on 4 Apr 1841, probably in connection with the British and Foreign Aborigines Society, founded by Hodgkin and Samuel Gurney c. 1836; see Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 827.
• 2. The ditto marks below Hodgkin's name are a shorthand for the address.