Hale responded to the charges in a pamphlet on the history of the Charterhouse. Writing anonymously, he challenged the right of the Brothers to regard themselves as gentleman, and drew up a table to prove that many of them were former servants, tradesmen and lackeys. Dickens countered by commissioning a second attack on the Charterhouse, which he published in Household Words on 1 December 1855.
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