These letters from the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library are now, with the permission of Sir Henry F. Dickens, published for the first time. They prove that, despite the assertions of Lever’s biographers, there was a very cordial and affectionate friendship between Lever and Dickens; and they furthermore correct the impression that might be gained from the omission of Lever's name in the Letters published by Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens and from the fact that in Forster’s Life Lever’s name is mentioned only in discussing the failure of his story in All the Year Round.