In Two Volumes.
VOL. III.
1836 to 1870.
London:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
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.