MR: SOLLY AND THE CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] the Spectator for March 17th, p. 376, when reviewing Mr. Solly's Reminiscences, you remark :—" Mr. Solly's ex- periences as a lecturer or a writer, and in the various insti- tutions for social purposes which he founded, promoted, or directed,"—amongst which you mention the Charity Organisa- tion Society. I hope you will allow me a few lines in which to state that the scheme which Mr. Solly, in conjunction with the late Dr. Hawkesley, brought before the council of the Charity Organisation Society (of which I was then, and for many years afterwards, a member) was of a totally different character. This will best be seen by its title, which was,— "For the Prevention of Pauperism and Crime," with which the Charity Organisation Society has never concerned itself. The present society is, and has always been, for " the organisation of existing charities," and not for the creation of new ones. It will be found to be the outcome of a paper I wrote in 1860, and is almost identical with the "rough sketch" of the present society, and has been in daily use from that day to this. The scheme of Mr. Solly and Dr. Hawkesley was, I believe—the society's minutes should show this— brought before the council, and also at a public meeting at the Adelphi, which I attended, and where it was at once re- jected. For fuller particulars I beg to refer you to the " Charity Organisation Review," No. 94.—I am, Sir, &c., G. M. H.
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