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THE LETTERS

OF

[HW: Charles Dickens]




THE LETTERS

OF

CHARLES DICKENS.

EDITED BY

HIS SISTER-IN-LAW AND HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER.

In Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

1833 to 1856.

London:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1880.

[_The Right of Translation is Reserved._]




CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,

CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

                     TO

               KATE PERUGINI,

        THIS MEMORIAL OF HER FATHER

           IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED

          BY HER AUNT AND SISTER.




PREFACE.


We intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to the "Life of
Charles Dickens," by John Forster. That work, perfect and exhaustive as
a biography, is only incomplete as regards correspondence; the scheme of
the book having made it impossible to include i