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Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 5 February 1851: 'Those papers on the London Poor are singularly interesting; to me they open a new and strange world, very dark, very dreary, very noisome in some of its recesses, a world that is fostering such a future as I scarcely dare to imagine [...] The fidelity and simplicity of the letterpress details harmonise well with the daguerrotype illustrations.'