Letter to Herbert Pocket
To: Mr. Herbert Pocket
No4 Cleopatra Street
From: Phillip Pirrip
Dear Herbert.
I write to you to inform you that my wounds have progressed adequately and I am much better right now. These months I have been questioning myself with whether it was better for Magwitch to die of his injuries or to suffer the pain and humiliation of a public hanging. I know he suffered a lot from his wounds but I am not sure if he would have suffered the same as if he was hanged. I think it is much better this way, and not because all these years have passed. He was a man who lived his life like a convict, in jail, who could have worked and taken care of someone he barely knew of. I am really confused by how he acted towards me and how he came to see the product of his work despite putting his own life at risk.
To: Mr. Herbert Pocket
No4 Cleopatra Street
From: Phillip Pirrip
Dear Herbert.
I write to you to inform you that my wounds have progressed adequately and I am much better right now. These months I have been questioning myself with whether it was better for Magwitch to die of his injuries or to suffer the pain and humiliation of a public hanging. I know he suffered a lot from his wounds but I am not sure if he would have suffered the same as if he was hanged. I think it is much better this way, and not because all these years have passed. He was a man who lived his life like a convict, in jail, who could have worked and taken care of someone he barely knew of. I am really confused by how he acted towards me and how he came to see the product of his work despite putting his own life at risk.
