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CHAPTER TEN

Many tie a piece of sponge to each end of the ribbon, and they take care not to use the same sponge again until it has been washed."

In connection with Place and his early instruction in practical methods and the great extent of his influence it is very tempting to say so much as would bring him into a prominence out of proportion to the rest of this textbook, but I think it of sufficient general interest to print in full the following hitherto unknown letter of Francis Place himself to Richard Carlile, of which I have seen the original manuscript draft in his own handwriting in a volume of his manuscripts, &c., in the British Museum, which I understand has not hitherto been searched. It is a long letter, but the contents are of extreme interest to the history of the Movement. This copy of Place's own draft of his letter to Richard Carlile, is dated London, August 17, 1822.[1]

"Your letter dated the 8th was brought to me yesterday only, by our friend Webb, who I was sorry to learn had been very ill. I was just thinking of

  1. ↑ I am much indebted to the authorities of the British Museum for their kind permission to publish this letter, which has, so far as I can ascertain, lain hitherto undetected and unpublished in the mass of Place's work.

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