WILLIAM BAKER is Professor of English and Professor, University Libraries at Northern Illinois University. He edits George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies and has written articles and books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and drama. His Letters of George Henry Lewes (2 vols) was published in 1995. WILLIAM M CLARKE is the author of The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins and his wife, Faith, is the great grand-daughter of Wilkie Collins. His latest book was The Lost Fortune of the Tsars. He was formerly Financial Editor of The Times and chairman of a London merchant bank. He is the author of over ten books on London's financial markets, prompting former Prime Minister Harold Wilson to comments: 'William Clarke is to the City of London what Boswell was to Dr Johnson'.

'A milestone event...this two-volume collection therefore answers a pressing need...' - Years Work in English Studies 'Fascinating material...will be valuable to both students and historians alike.' - Times Higher Education Supplement 'These handsomely produced volumes will be a necessary addition to any self-respecting nineteenth-century library collection.' - Lyn Pykett, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

• List of Plates Preface to Volume 2 Letters The Moonstone to the Death of his Mother (1866-1868) Martha and the American Triumph (1869-February 1874) Domesticity (March 1874-1879) Illness, Work, and Family (1880-1885) Letters to 'Nannie' (1885-1888) Declining Years (1886-1889) Index