2 pages, 8vo, several pale adhesive stains showing through from verso, upper margin edge on first page a little rough. Matted and framed, unexamined out of frame.

Dickens writes the Committee on behalf of the authors Maria Goodluck and her sister Louisa to receive assistance from the Fund: “…I am acquainted with the merits of the case of the two sisters Miss Maria Goodluck and Miss Louisa Goodluck, and that I know them to be worthy of all assistance and relief… they are the authoresses of several little books, and some of their verses for children are of unusual merit…”. He also mentions his friend “Dr. Elliotson who has been a most generous and earnest friend to them.” 

Dr. John Elliotson was the Dickens family doctor who introduced Dickens to Mesmerism, having opined a mesmeric hospital in 1849. Maria Goodluck was the author of Poems from the Fireside, an Affectionate Greeting for the Young, published in 1852.