An appeal to fallen women : printed leaflet.

Record ID: 
168662
Accession number: 
MA 1352.79a
Author: 
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Credit: 
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description: 
1 item (4 pages) ; 24.7 x 19.8 cm
Notes: 

No title on the the item; title taken from published letter cited below.
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
This copy of the leaflet, of which only one other is known to exist, was enclosed in a letter from Dickens to Miss Coutts dated 28 October 1847 (MA 1352.79).
This leaflet was written for distribution to potential inmates of Urania Cottage, a home for "fallen women" in Shepherd's Bush, which was funded by Miss Burdett-Coutts.
Formerly cataloged as "An Appeal [in the form of a letter signed "Your Friend"] addressed to the street women of London announcing the establishment [by Miss Burdett-Coutts] of the Shepherd's Bush Home for Fallen Women."

Provenance: 
The letters formed part of the Burdett-Coutts sale (Sotheby, 17 May 1922); they were purchased for Oliver W. Barrett in whose collection they remained until it was sold by his son (Parke-Bernet, 31 October 1951).