The Letters of Charles Dickens The Pilgrim Edition Volume 9: 1859-1861

by Dickens, Charles; Storey, Graham; Brown, Margaret; Tillotson, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780198122937
• ISBN10: 0198122934
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-04
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records the writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations ; the planning and writing of a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, 'A Haunted House', 'A Message from the Sea', and 'Tom Tiddler's Ground'; and the establishment of All the Year Round as a new journal to succeed Household Words . It also shows Dickens's delight with his new Kentish home, Gad's Hill.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii	(9)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvi	(3)
BIOGRAPHICAL TABLE	xix	(2)
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS	xxi
The Letters 1859-1861	1	(560)
APPENDIXES	561	(13)
A Extract from John Forster to Charles Dickens and the Rev. Whitwell Elwin, 22 March 1859	561	(3)
B W.H. Wills to Charles Dickens, 28 April 1859	564	(1)
C Statement of Bradbury & Evans, "Mr. Charles Dickens and his Late Publishers", 31 May 1859	565	(2)
D Conditional Agreement between Charles Dickens and Thomas Coke Evans, August 1859	567	(1)
E Wilkie Collins to Charles Dickens, 7 August 1860	568	(1)
F Henry Austin Memorial, sent to Lord Palmerston, [?Nov 1861]	569	(2)
G Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton to Charles Dickens, [?27 April 1861] and [?24-25 December 1861]	571	(3)
ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA	574	(1)
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS	575	(6)
INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES	581