The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray: Volume IV The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume IV: 1857–1863

The four volumes of this inclusive edition of Thackeray’s correspondence and private papers—two ready now and two to follow in the autumn of 1946—fill a great gap in our knowledge of the author of Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond. Scattered in a thousand places, some of them confidential, Thackeray’s personal papers concealed a wealth of information about a striking personality and about his time.The third and fourth volumes include a mass of letters written by Thackeray while he was in the United States for his two lecture tours in the Eastern and Southern States. Preface to volume four Contents 1281. To Major and mrs. Carmichael-Smyth 1 january 1857 Letters of Uncertain Date Appendix XVIII: Thackeray in Norwich, may, 1857 Appendix XIX: The Oxford Election, 1857 Appendix XX: Diary 3 january-23 september 1858 Appendix XXI: Diary for 1861 Appendix XXII: Diary for 1862 Appendix XXIII: Number 2, Palace Green, Kensington Appendix XXIV: Diary for 1863 Appendix XXV: Thackeray and the national Shakespeare committee Appendix XXVI: Excerpts from thackeray's unpublished letters to mrs. Brookfield, mrs. Elliot, and miss Perry Appendix XXVII: Forged thackeray letters Appendix XXVIII: The medical history of William Makepeace Thackeray A thackeray Genealogy Index of correspondents General Index Index