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5, Chayne Row, Chelsea, 
London, 13 April, 1843. 
Dear Sir, 
Will you be so good as send, by the earliest convenience 
you have, two copies of your Book, Bamford’s Life of a 
Radical ; addressed to “The Hon. W. B. Baring, 12, Gtj 
Stanhope Street, London.” Two copies have been wanted 
there for some time. Probably you have some appointed 
conveyance by which your Books arrive here without 
additional cost ; if so, pray use the earliest of these. Nay, 
perhaps your Books are themselves procurable somewhere 
in London ? That would be the shortest way of all. At 
any rate the Coach or Railway remains ; and will be of no 
enormous amount. Be so good as apprise me by post what 
way you have adopted ; and on what day the Books may 
be looked for in Stanhope Street ; — not forgetting to enclose 
an account withal. 
I read your Book with much interest ; with a true desire 
to hear more and more of the authentic news of Middleton 
and of the honest toiling men there. Many persons have a 
similar desire. I would recommend you to try whether 
there is not yet more to be said, perhaps, on some side of 
that subject; for it belongs to an important class in these 
days. A man is at airtimes entitled, or even called upon 
by occasion, to speak, and write and in all fit ways utter , 
what he has himself gone thro’, and known , and got the 
mastery of ; — and in truth, at bottom, there is nothing else 
that any man has a right to write of. For the rest, one 
principle, I think, in whatever farther you write, may be 
enough to guide you : that of standing rigorously by tb e 
fact, however naked it look. Fact is eternal; all Fiction is 
very transitory in comparison. All men are interested in 
any man if he will speak the facts of his life for them ; his 
authentic experience, which corresponds, as face with face, 
to that of all other sons of Adam. 
