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1851-1860

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To THOMAS BATSON,1 13 AUGUST 1851

MS Huntington Library.

Broadstairs, Kent

Wednesday Thirteenth August | 1851.

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your pamphlet,2 which I have read with great interest. I hope it would not be in the tendency of such a system, to place the Men (in the neighbourhood where it might be extensively adopted) at a disadvantage? But for a suspicion that this objection might attach to it if it were established on a greater scale, I regard it as a sound and hopeful work.

Faithfully Yours

CHARLES DICKENS

Thomas Batson Esquire.

1. Not otherwise identified.
2. Batson’s How to Improve the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer. A self supporting system, by which boys may be trained in acts of industry, and at the same time receive a suitable education, 1851.