THE LETTERS
OF
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.
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, CharlesDickens obtained possession of Gad's Hill, and was able toturn workmen into it. In April he stayed, with his wife andsister-in-law, for a week or two at Wate's Hotel, Gravesend,to be at hand to superintend the beginning of his alterationsof the house, and from thence we give a letter to LordCarlisle. He removed his family, for a summer residence inthe house, in June; and he finished "Little Dorrit" thereearly in the summer. One of his first vis
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