The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870

The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. They have been described as "invariably idiosyncratic, exuberant, vivid, and amusing widely recognized as a significant body of work in themselves, part of the Dickens canon".