DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed to Mrs Morson, Tavistock House, 18 December 1851, on holding a committee, and on bills and the 'New Year's accounts', one page, 8vo, presuambly relating to Urania Cottage, a refuge for homeless women. Georgina Morson, widow of the physician J.H. Morson, was governess at the institution in Shepherd's Bush, founded in November 1847 by Dickens and the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. Dickens was writing Dombey and Son whilst also devoting his time to the setting up of Urania Cottage (named after Venus Urania), which was intended to rehabilitate women who had fallen into prostitution or petty crimes. Over the following ten years, 'Dickens was very active in all aspects of its administration, in recruiting suitable inmates and arranging for their training in domestic skills, for maintaining discipline, and for sending successful graduates of the home to start new lives in Australia' (ODNB). Framed.