The Letters of Charles Dickens The Pilgrim Edition, Volume 10: 1862-1864 Volume 10: 1862-1864

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

• ISBN13: 9780198122944
• ISBN10: 0198122942
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-16
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This volume presents 918 letters, 435 previously unpublished. Our Mutual Friend , Dickens's main work in this period, comes out monthly from 30 April 1864 to 31 October 1865. The three highly successful All the Year Round Christmas numbers, "Somebody's Luggage", "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" and "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy", take up much of his energies. Dickens entertains many of his friends at Gad's Hill which plays an increasingly major part in his life. But there is no other period in which he visits France so often, generally alone. The deliberately mystifying language he uses about these visits suggests he was seeing Ellen Ternan there, but there is no evidence to prove it.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii	(8)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xv	(2)
BIOGRAPHICAL TABLE	xvii	(2)
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS	xix
The Letters 1862-1864	1	(472)
APPENDIXES	473	(7)
A W. H. Wills to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, 31 January 1862	473	(1)
B Edwin Chadwick to Charles Dickens [July 1863]	474	(1)
C Heads of Agreement to be drawn up with Chapman & Hall enclosed in a letter from Charles Dickens to Frederic Ouvry, 30 September 1863	475	(1)
D Edward Chapman to W.J. Farrer, 13 October 1863	476	(1)
E Agreement between Charles Dickens and Messrs Chapman & Hall for the publication of Our Mutual Friend, 21 November 1863	477	(2)
F The Public readings: Provincial tour, January 1862; London series, March-June 1862 and March-June 1863	479	(1)
ADDENDA	480	(1)
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS	481	(6)
INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES	487