Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Henry Fothergill Chorley, Vol. 2 of 2: Autobiography, Memoir, and Letters
Private and social life from 1852 to 1872-residence at No.13, Eaton Place West - Description of the house - Parties - Extract from letter to Liverpool - Opposition to Spiritualistic mania - Friendship with Charles Dickens - Letters from him - Visits to Gad's Hill - Miss Dickens' reminiscences - Mr. Proc ter - Hawthorne - Other Associates - Deaths of Miss Mitford and Sir Wm. Molesworth - Letter to Liver pool - Illness and death of his sister - Memorial sketch of his brother John's career - Letter from Mr. Carlyle - Professor Ticknor - Accession of for tune - Mental depression, loneliness, and failing health - A fatal expedient - Travels - Letter from Spain Scarborough Wakehurst Place - Memory of early friendship - Letters - Affectionate relations with Mr. Benson Rathbone - Friendship with the writer - Reminiscences - Death of Dickens - Letters to the writer - Employment on autobiography Preface - Acceleration of organic disease - Letters to Liverpool - His death, and funeral.
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