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Title: The Letters of Charles Dickens
Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870

Author: Charles Dickens

Editor: Mamie Dickens
Georgina Hogarth

Release Date: June 20, 2008 [EBook #25853]

Language: English

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THE LETTERS

OF

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THE LETTERS

OF

CHARLES DICKENS.

EDITED BY

HIS SISTER-IN-LAW AND HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER.

=In Two Volumes.=

VOL. II.

1857 TO 1870.

London:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1880.

[_The Right of Translation is Reserved._]

CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

ERRATA.

VOL. II.

Page 84, line 35. For "South Kensington
Museum," _read_ "the South Kensington Museum."

" 108, line 26. For "frequent contributor,"
_read_ "a frequent contributor."

" 113, lines 6, 7. For "great remonstrance,"
_read_ "Great Remonstrance."

" 130, line 10. For "after," _read_ "afore."

" 160, " 32. For "a head," _read_ "ahead."

" 247, " 12. For "Shea," _read_ "Shoe."

" 292, " 12. For "Mabel's progress," _read_
"Mabel's Progress."

=Book II.=--_Continued._

THE

LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS.

1857.

NARRATIVE.

This was a very full year in many ways. In February, Charles Dickens
obtained possession of Gad's Hill, and was able to turn workmen into it.
In April he stayed, with his wife and sister-in-law, for a week or two
at Wate's Hotel, Gravesend, to be at hand to superintend the beginning
of his alterations of the house, and from thence we give a letter to
Lord Carlisle. He removed his family, for a summer residence in the
house, in June; and he finished "Little Dorrit" there early in the
summer. One of his first