Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a lifelong and assiduous letter-writer, was a close friend of Shelley and friend also of many Radicals of the early 19th century. In the later part of his life, he rose to high position in the East India Company's service. This is a two-volume annotated edition of his extensive correspondence. The scholarship is evident in annotation that is enormously impressive ... The notes are full of interest and Joukovsky makes his scholarship all the more useful by compiling a very fine index to the whole edition.