DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") to [John Watts?], commenting on public executions. Devonshire Terrace, Friday evening, 23 November 1849. 2 pages, 8vo, written on recto and verso. "... I know of no place of resort in London where bad characters can find any sight half so bad in its influence upon them as a public execution - half so indecent and bad in itself - or at all like it in any respect..."

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DICKENS, CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") to [John Watts?], commenting on public executions. Devonshire Terrace, Friday evening, 23 November 1849. 2 pages, 8vo, written on recto and verso. "... I know of no place of resort in London where bad characters can find any sight half so bad in its influence upon them as a public execution - half so indecent and bad in itself - or at all like it in any respect..."