Once these were paid, his wife, his son and his daughter found themselves with little money and no house to live in. There was only one person that they could turn to for help: Ralph, the children's uncle. Mrs Nickleby didn't really know him, but -because he was in the London finance business - he was rich and knew many people. Before her husband died, ha said that Ralph would help him. So she wrote a letter to say that they were coming, and the very next day they all traveled to London