The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870Clarendon Press, 2002 M03 14 - 842 pages This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition. The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's American tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from "American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more English reading tours before his collapse at Preston on 22 April 1869. In early January 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on 31 March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by Luke Fildes; it continued monthly until 31 August. Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel Maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870. |
Contents
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A ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA TO VOLUMES IXI | 555 |
1 CHARLES DICKENSS AMERICAN TOUR JANUARYAPRIL 1868 continued from Vol XI | 711 |
2 CHARLES DICKENSS 6 OCTOBER 186821 APRIL 1869 FAREWELL SERIES | 712 |
3 CHARLES DICKENSS FAREWELL LONDON READINGS 11 JANUARY15 MARCH 1870 | 713 |
READINGS SENT TO W H WILLS 25 FEBRUARY 1868 | 714 |
GREAT INTERNATIONAL WALKING MATCH OF FEBRUARY 29 1868 from The Sporting Narrative | 716 |
E CATTERMOLE FUND APPEAL JANUARY 1869 | 718 |
FIELDS OSGOOD CO ?23 FEBRUARY 1870 | 721 |
DICKENS AND FREDERIC CHAPMAN AND HENRY MERIVALE TROLLOPE | 722 |
2 Agreement as to the Copyright of several Books by Charles Dickens Esqre 12 MAY 1869 AND 2 JUNE 1870 Dated 28th March 1870 | 723 |
J DRAFT ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES DICKENS JNR AND W H WILLS ALL THE YEAR ROUND | 727 |
K CHARLES DICKENSS WILL AND CODICIL | 732 |
L ALFRED TENNYSON DICKENS to G W RUSDEN 11 AUGUST 1870 | 736 |
CUMULATIVE INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS VOLS 112 | 741 |
INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES | 781 |
F R H HORNE to CHARLES DICKENS 22 OCTOBER 1869 | 719 |
ON CHARLES DICKENS PLACED WITH HIS COLLECTION OF LETTERS FROM DICKENS 1869 | 720 |
Common terms and phrases
Address affectionately CD American April Boston Cattermole CD's CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES KENT Date Dear Sir Dearest Georgy DECEMBER delete Devonshire Terrace Dickens House Dickens's dine dinner Dolby doubt enclosed Esquire Faithfully Faithfully Yours CHARLES FEBRUARY Fechter Fields Fitzgerald FREDERIC CHAPMAN FREDERIC OUVRY Free Library Friday GAD'S HILL PLACE George Henry HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER hope Hotel Huntington Library Hyde Park Place James James Emerson Tennent JANUARY JOHN FORSTER July June last night later vols letter Library of Philadelphia Liverpool London Macready March MDGH MISS GEORGINA HOGARTH Monday morning née Norton NOVEMBER OCTOBER OFFICE paper published Replaces catalogue ROUND Saturday SEPTEMBER 1869 Sikes and Nancy Sotheby's St James's Hall Sunday Tavistock House Text thanks Thomas Trollope Tuesday W. C. MACREADY Wednesday Wilkie Collins William write written York
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