The Brambley Letters

The letters include tragedies of Dickensian nature and scale, but unlike Charles Dickens’s tales, they’re not fiction. They are supplemented by eighty-six documents, photographs, and ephemera. With one exception, the letters have not been subjected to historians’ interpretations and inferences. This provides inquisitive readers the opportunity to form their own inferences and conclusions from primary source documents.

Ebenezer Brambley (1815–1884). Described as a