The Charles Dickens Letters Project

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

To MRS MORSON,1 [30] AUGUST 1851

Envelope only, from facsimile on eBay, February 2008.

Address: Mrs. Morson | Urania Cottage | Near The White Horse | Shepherds Bush | London.

Date: postmarked on verso 30 Aug and 1 Sep 51. Black border.

  • 1. Georgiana Morson (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, 2009.