Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1917 — A “Dickens Spot" Going. [ARTICLE]

A “Dickens Spot" Going.

It Is, of course, impossible to preserve all such places, but one hears with regret that “development” is to claim another Dickens landmark in London. It is an old house, overhanging the river in the neighborhood of Limehouse Hole, and was formerly occupied by the Waters family, who, for generations, there carried on the business of lightermen. The house is reached from the shore at low water by means ot a flight of wooden stairs, and a recent .writer relates how Richard Waters used t« recount, with great interest, the visits which Charles Dickens paid to his house when engaged in writing “Our Mutual Friend.’ In order to secure the true local color for his riverside scenes, the novelist spent many days in the little bow windowed room overlooking. the Thames, "writing away as if for dear life,” as Mr. Walters would say.—Chrlstiai Science Monitor, -■•"k ■ \