John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter

on 23 July, and with Charles Masterman, the Under Secretary of the Home Office, on 27 July.In these letters, Galsworthy drew upon his first-hand observations from visits to Lewes and Chelmsford prisons to underscore the inhumane conditions of solitary confinement.Jill Felicity Durey's recent work (2021) has extensively cited Galsworthy's letters to Ruggles-Brise in this period, some of which had not been published previously, including the aforementioned one. 1 However,