| Description | Two letters from Annie Besant (1847-1933) at 19 Avenue Road, St John's Wood, 10 September and 9 October 1890, to unnamed recipient (presumed to be Bow Vestry) complaining about the high rates demand for 193 Bow Road. Gives details of improvements and decoration work carried out there, and refer to the "very rough lodging house next door"; with newspaper cutting re the opening of the East London Working Women's Club at 193 Bow Road and pencil notes, possibly once attached to the letter of 10 September. |