| AN |
American Notes (1842) |
| ANB |
American National Biography |
| AYR |
All the Year Round (1859–70) |
| BH |
Bleak House (1852–3) |
| BR |
Barnaby Rudge (1841) |
| CC |
A Christmas Carol (1843) |
| CD |
Charles Dickens |
| D&S |
Dombey and Son (1846–8) |
| DC |
David Copperfield (1849–50) |
| ED |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) |
| Forster |
John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, ed. J. W. T. Ley (London, 1928) |
| GE |
Great Expectations (1859–60) |
| HT |
Hard Times (1854) |
| HW |
Household Words (1850–9) |
| LD |
Little Dorrit (1855–7) |
| MC |
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4) |
| MHC |
Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840–1) |
| MS |
manuscript |
| NN |
Nicholas Nickleby (1838–9) |
| No. |
Issue number of Dickens’s serial publications |
| OCS |
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1) |
| OED |
Oxford English Dictionary |
| OMF |
Our Mutual Friend (1864–5) |
| OT |
Oliver Twist (1837–9) |
| Pilgrim |
The British Academy Pilgrim Edition, The Letters of Charles Dickens, 12 vols., ed. |
|
Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, et al. (Oxford, 1965–2002) |
| PP |
The Pickwick Papers (1836–7) |
| SB |
Sketches by Boz (1836) |
| Slater |
Michael Slater, Charles Dickens (New Haven, 2009) |
| Speeches |
The Speeches of Charles Dickens, ed. K. J. Fielding (Oxford, 1960) |
| TC |
The Chimes (1844) |
| TTC |
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) |
| V&A |
Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
| [ ] |
indicates conjectured, missing, or illegible words or dates |
| † |
indicates an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| | |
indicates a separate line in the manuscript |