The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Anna Lea Merritt, Colvin A. Abbott and H. S. Maine.
Bound in boards with half leather dark red fine binding embossed with author and title in gilt lettering.