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Title: The Letters of Charles Dickens
Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870

Author: Charles Dickens

Editor: Mamie Dickens
Georgina Hogarth

Release Date: June 20, 2008 [EBook #25854]

Language: English

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THE LETTERS

OF

Charles Dickens

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THE LETTERS

OF

CHARLES DICKENS.

EDITED BY

HIS SISTER-IN-LAW AND HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER

VOL. III.

1836 TO 1870.

London:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED,
11, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1882.

[_The Right of Translation is Reserved._]

CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

PREFACE.

Since our publication of "The Letters of Charles Dickens" we have
received the letters addressed to the late Lord Lytton, which we were
unable to procure in time for our first two volumes in consequence of
his son's absence in India. We thank the Earl of Lytton cordially for
his kindness in sending them to us very soon after his return. We also
offer our sincere thanks to Sir Austen H. Layard, and to the senders of
many other letters, which we now publish for the first time.

With a view to making our selection as complete as possible, we have
collected together the letters from Charles Dickens which have already
been published in various Biographies, and have chosen and placed in
chronological order among our new letters those which we consider to be
of the greatest interest.

As our Narrative was finished in our second volume, this volume consists
of Letters _only_, with occasional foot-notes wherever there are
allusions requiring explanation.

MAMIE DICKENS.
GEORGINA HOGARTH.

LONDON: _September, 1881._

ERRATA.

VOL. III.

Page 87, line 5. For "J. W. Leigh Murray," _read_ "Mr. Leigh Murray."