Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Chapter XXXVIII. WHAT, THESE TEDIOUS DETAILS AGAIN., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: It will be well to present here some account of those who were to rule my life for so many years. The Board of Prison Commissioners have their headquarters at the Home Office in Parliament street, London, and are under the control of the Home Secretary of State.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XXXVIII. WHAT, THESE TEDIOUS DETAILS AGAIN..” It is most useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century banking culture, criminal justice, prison memoir, and the social setting of the period.
Read “Chapter XXXVIII. WHAT, THESE TEDIOUS DETAILS AGAIN.” as a historical memoir rather than guidance. The banking procedures, legal assumptions, public reputation, social judgments, travel conditions, and prison practices described belong to Bidwell’s nineteenth-century setting and may not match modern institutions.