In the course of those nights, I finished my education in a fair amateur experience of houselessness. My principal object being to get through the night, the pursuit of it brought me into sympathetic relations with people who have no other object every night in the year. The UT observes a Temperence Movement rally from his window in Covent Garden. His view on Temperence has always been that there can be use without abuse. Noticing that some of the wagons used in the rally were over-burdening their horses he states the case that all should obstain from using horses, even those who do not misuse them A nocturnal walking tour through the heart of London, “Night Walks” engages our sympathies and enlarges our social vision. It invites the reader to look at familiar places with fresh eyes, to see people who might otherwise remain invisible, and to imagine what we may have in common with those less fortunate than ourselves. The UT, accompanied by his friend Bullfinch, endures a terrible dining experience at the Temeraire in Namelesston The UT rambles through the deserted City on the weekend. He observes couples making hay, and making love, in the old churchyards. He also muses about the closed up banks and Garraways shut up coffeehouse

quadrangles.” His novelistic descriptions of the spot still bear true today: “It is one of those nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing The UT describes the journey from Dover to Calais by steamer and then on to Paris via the night express train An outdoor cinema projection in Wood Street, Waltham Forest, brings people together in Philipp Ebeling’s image Now, I have always held that there may be, and that there unquestionably is, such a thing as use without abuse, and that therefore the total abolitionists are irrational and wrong-headed ( Uncommercial Traveller, p. 361). Ihavewrittenmy3paragraphanswertoQ4inpaper2,couldyoumarkthisandletmeknowwhatwentwell,howIcanimproveandwhatmarkyouwouldscoreit.The UT pays a series of visits to one of the alms-houses established in his last will and testament by Sampson Titbull in 1723. He observes how the inmates, men and women, keep close tabs on one another and as one voice curse the trustees who run the place. A conceived blight upon the establishment occurs when the youngest of the ladies of the house marries a Greenwich pensioner The UT observes a group of 800 Mormons boarding ship for the journey to New York, they will continue by train to the Missouri River, then by wagon train to the Great Salt Lake, Utah. He goes on ship prepared to bear testimony against them, if they deserved it; and to his great astonishment they did not deserve it. He found that a remarkable influence (their faith) had produced a remarkable result The UT makes two visits to the Britannia Theatre in Hoxton. On Saturday night he sees a pantomime and a melodrama. On the following Sunday evening he attends religious services there resisting the urge to stop into the fine art galleries and new restaurants at Somerset House, a mansion complex that once housed the Navy The UT spends a year of Sundays visiting the ill-attended old churches in the City of London, monuments to another age

The shabbiness of our English capital, as compared with Paris, Bordeaux, Frankfort, Milan, Geneva—almost any important town on the continent of Europe—I find very striking after an absence of any duration in foreign parts. London is shabby in contrast with Edinburgh, with Aberdeen, with Exeter, with Liverpool, with a bright little town like Bury St. Edmunds. London is shabby in contrast with New York, with Boston, with Philadelphia ( Uncommercial Traveller, p. 250). The UT boards the steamship Russia in New York for his return from America on April 22, 1868. He reports on the voyage and the contant roar of the ship's screw. He arrives in Liverpool on May 1, 1868, completing a trip that severely taxed his healthTo walk on to the Bank, lamenting the good old times and bemoaning the present evil period, would be an easy next step, so I would take it, and would make my houseless circuit of the Bank, and give a thought to the treasure within; likewise to the guard of soldiers passing the night there, and nodding over the fire. Next, I went to Billingsgate, in some hope of market-people, but it proving as yet too early, crossed London-bridge and got down by the waterside on the Surrey shore among the buildings of the great brewery. There was plenty going on at the brewery; and the reek, and the smell of grains, and the rattling of the plump dray horses at their mangers, were capital company. Quite refreshed by having mingled with this good society, I made a new start with a new heart, setting the old King’s Bench prison before me for my next object, and resolving, when I should come to the wall, to think of poor Horace Kinch, and the Dry Rot in men. The UT journeys from his Covent Garden lodging to the workhouse at Wapping following a report in The Times in which a police magistrate had said that the workhouse was a disgrace and a shame. There he is given a tour of the house and interviews some of the inmates there. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Read more Details The UT visits a workhouse in Liverpool containing dead and dying soldiers who have returned from India amid terrible conditions onboard the Great Tasmania The UT fondly recalls visits to places he has never been...in the beloved books of his youth. He also recalls being terrified as a child by the macabre stories told him by his nurse