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Letters of Charles Dickens, by Charles Dickens
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Title: The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856
Author: Charles Dickens
Editor: Mamie Dickens Georgina Hogarth
Release Date: June 20, 2008 [EBook #25852]
Language: English
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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,