ABSTRACT

In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.

First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew’s complete Morning Chronicle survey, in the sequence in which it was originally written in 1849 and 1850. It addresses a wealth of topics from cholera in the Jacob’s Island area to the food markets of London. The publication of this complete survey represented the first time in which the whole of Mayhew’s pioneering work was available in one place. The set is introduced by Dr Peter Razzell, who was co-editor of the national Morning Chronicle survey. This sixth volume contains letters from September to December 1850.

This series will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare, poverty and urbanisation.

chapter |19 pages

Letter LXIX: Thursday, September 12, 1850

chapter |17 pages

Letter LXX: Thursday, September 19, 1850

chapter |19 pages

Letter LXXI: Thursday, September 26, 1850

chapter |20 pages

Letter LXXII: Thursday, October 3, 1850

chapter |20 pages

Letter LXXIII: Thursday, October 10, 1850

chapter |18 pages

Letter LXXIV: Thursday, October 17, 1850

chapter |13 pages

Letter LXXV: Thursday, October 24, 1850

chapter |19 pages

Letter LXXVI: Thursday, October 31, 1850

chapter |17 pages

Letter LXXVII: Thursday, November 7, 1850

chapter |20 pages

Letter LXXVIII: Friday, November 15, 1850

chapter |19 pages

Letter LXXIX: Thursday, November 21, 1850

chapter |21 pages

Letter LXXX: Thursday, November 28, 1850

chapter |17 pages

Letter LXXXI: Thursday, December 5, 1850