List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Biographical Table

Abbreviations and Symbols

The Letters 1865--1867

APPENDIXES

A The Public Readings: First Provincial Chappell Tour 10 April--12 June 1866; Second Provincial Chappell Tour 15 January--13 May 1867; American Tour December 1867--April 1868 (continued in next volume)

B Draft Agreement between the Editors of All the Year Round and the Author of ``Aunt Margaret's Trouble'' [Mrs Frances Trollope], [Late 1866]

C ``The Case in a Nutshell''; Charles Dickens to John Forster, [24 September 1867]

D ``Dickens in America'', from our Special Correspondent, New York Daily Tribune, 6 September 1867 (dated London, 20 August 1867)

Addendum

Index of Correspondents

Index of Names and Places