#OTD in 1860.
Charles Dickens burns most of his private papers at his home in Kent, Gads Hill Place, having taken up regular residence there this year; he spared only letters on business matters. Since Ellen Ternan also destroyed all of his letters to her, the extent of the affair between the two remains speculative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
Books by Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37