| Description | (In the hand of George Lovejoy. Includes comment that 'at present ... there is an extreme section among the shop assistants & their friends who are beginning to demand things a Chaillot, things in the moon, simply impossible things', such as restricting the working day to 10 hours, which he thought 'would shut up the shops of London at six p.m & thus practically paralyse the activity of a metropolis containing four millions of souls. London after six in the afternoon would be literally a living tomb'.) |