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Epilogue
1. Public Record Office, Hulk Returns, HO 8/31.
2. Appendix A of the Fourth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales (1838), p. 106; evidence of Dr. Arnott.
3. Hackney Archives at the Hackney Local Studies Library, Admission and Discharge Registers of Shoreditch Workhouse, 1832–36, XP507; this is one of the few east London workhouses from which registers of inmates exist for the 1820s and early 1830s.
4. Report of the Select Committee on Allegations Relative to the Conduct of Certain Magistrates in the Holborn Division of Middlesex in Granting Licences for Victual Houses, 1833, p. 15.
5. The Catalogue of Dr Kahn’s Celebrated Anatomical Museum is in the British Library. Kahn, a German showman, moved his museum several times in the middle of the century, and its venues included Regent Street, Oxford Street, and Coventry Street.
6. George Godwin, Town Swamps and Social Bridges (1859), p. 23; Hector Gavin, Sanitary Ramblings, Being Sketches and Illustrations of Bethnal Green (1848), pp. 9–10.
7. Hackney Express and Shoreditch Observer, 1 and 8 January 1898.
8. Baroness Burdett-Coutts: A Sketch of Her Public Life and Work by HRH Princess Mary Adelaide, duchess of Teck (1893).
9. “The Baroness Burdett-Coutts” by Mary Spencer-Warren, part of the Illustrated Interviews series in Strand Magazine 7 (1894): 248.
10. Authentic Memoirs of the Lives of Mr and Mrs Coutts, Communicated by a Person of the First Respectability (1819).
11. The complete twelve-volume bound set of The Mysteries of London is extremely rare. However, in 1996 an abridged, annotated copy, with an introduction containing biographical material on Reynolds and reproducing some of the original wood engravings, was published by Trefor Thomas (in the Keele University Press imprint).
12. Evidence given in the Second Report from the Select Committee on Metropolis Improvements, 1837–38, p. 82.
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