Charles Dickens collection of papers, [1833]-[1975] bulk ([1833]-1909).

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Creator

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

• 1,179 items.

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Notes

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, diaires for 1867 and 1868, notebooks for 1843 through 1870, financial and legal documents, portraits and pictorial works. There are a number of pen and ink, watercolor, and pencil drawings of illustrations for Dickens' novels by H. K. Browne, John Leech, J. C. Clarke, Frederic Pailthorpe, and George Cruikshank. The manuscripts include drafts and passages from novels, stories, poems, scenarios, captions, essays, and miscellaneous autograph material of the author, as well as essays, plays, bibliographies, lectures, and othermanuscript material about the author from George Bentley, Richard Bentley, Wilkie Collins, Vladimir Nabokov, and others.

The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1833] to 1870, by the author to Richard Bentley, the Reverand W.H. Brookfield, Robert Browning, George Cattermole, WilliamF. De Cerjat, Chapman and Hall, Wilkie Collins, George Cruikshank, Peter Cunningham, his brother Frederick Dickens, George Dolby, Professor C. C. Felton, James T. Fields, Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Georgina Hogarth, Leigh Hunt, Washington Irving, Frances Maria Kelly, Walter Savage Landor, Emile de la Rue, Mark Lemon, George Henry Lewes, Charles Mackay, Daniel Maclise, Thomas Mitton, Edgar Allan Poe, David Roberts, Clarkson Stanfield, ThomasNoon Talfourd, Sir James Emerson Tennent, William Makepeace Thackeray, Frances Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, W. H. Wills, and others. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1836 to [1975],between various correspondents including Alfred Ainger, Alexander Macmillan, Richard Harris Barham, George Bentley,Richard Bentley, George Cruikshank, Washington Irving, Georgina Hogarth, W. M. Rossetti, Frederic G. Kitton, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens Jr., Henry F.Dickens, and others. Present, also, are letters to Dickensfrom Richard Bentley, George Cruikshank, Walter Savage Landor, E. S. Morgan, A. P. Watt and Son, and others, dating from [1836?] through 1891.

Biographical/Historical Note

Charles Dickens was a British novelist, short story writer,essayist and journalist.

Controlled Access Terms

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Portraits.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Barnaby Rudge -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak house -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. David Copperfield -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Dombey and Son -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little Dorrit -- Illustations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Martin Chuzzelwit -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Nicholas Nickleby -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Pickwick papers -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Strange gentleman -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Tale of two cities -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas carol -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mr. Nightingale's diary -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist -- Illustrations.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Sketches by Boz -- Illustrations.
• Correspondence.
• Diaries.
• Notebooks.

Additional Creator Names

• Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
• Barham, R. H. Dalton (Richard Harris Dalton), 1815-1886.
• Bentley, George, 1828-1895.
• Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871.
• Brookfield, William Henry, 1809-1874.
• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.
• Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
• Cattermole, George, 1800-1868.
• Cerjat, William F. De.
• Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
• Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
• Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869.
• Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896.
• Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868.
• Dickens, Henry F. (Henry Fielding), Sir, 1849-1933.
• Dolby, George, d. 1900.
• Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862.
• Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
• Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
• Hogarth, Georgina, 1827-1917.
• Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
• Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
• Kelly, Frances Maria, 1790-1882.
• Kitton, Frederic George, 1856-1904.
• Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
• La Rue, Emile de.
• Leech, John, 1817-1864.
• Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870.
• Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878.
• Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889.
• Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870.
• Macmillan, Alexander, 1818-1896.
• Mitton, Thomas.
• Morgan, E. S.
• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
• Pailthorpe, F. W. (Frederic W.)
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
• Roberts, David, 1896-1864.
• Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919.
• Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.
• Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854.
• Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869.
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
• Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863.
• Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892.
• Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880.
• A. P. Watt and Son.
• Chapman and Hall.
• Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950. fmo
• Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938. fmo
• Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912. fmo
• Browne, M. A. fmo
• Clendenin, Eve. fmo
• Cole, Hobart F. fmo
• Cosens, F. W. (Frederick William), 1819-1889. fmo
• Eccles, Mary Hyde. dnr
• Glemby, Harry. fmo
• Hatton, Thomas. fmo
• Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) fmo
• Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966. dnr
• Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928. fmo
• Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. fmo
• Leech, Esther. fmo
• Leslie, C. R. fmo
• MacAfee, William H. fmo
• Matz, B. W. (Bertram Waldrom), 1865-1925. fmo
• McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928. fmo
• Stoddard-Howe, Richard Henry. fmo
• Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933. fmo
• Wilson, Rebecca Ball. fmo
• Young, Owen D., 1874- fmo