| Description |
1,179 items. |
| Summary |
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 other manuscript material about the author from George Bentley, Richard Bentley, Wilkie Collins, Vladimir Nabokov, and others. |
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The correspondence includes letters, dating from [1833] to 1870, by the author to Richard Bentley, the Reverand W. H. Brookfield, Robert Browning, George Cattermole, William F. 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, Thomas Noon 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 Dickens from Richard Bentley, George Cruikshank, Walter Savage Landor, E. S. Morgan, A. P. Watt and Son, and others, dating from [1836?] through 1891. |
| Restricted Access |
Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated. |
| Biography |
Charles Dickens was a British novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. |
| Indexes |
Inventory list and card catalog available in repository. |
| Local Note |
Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation. |
| Processing Action |
Will microfilm; 20080603 |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Portraits.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Barnaby Rudge -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak house -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. David Copperfield -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Dombey and Son -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little Dorrit -- Illustations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Martin Chuzzelwit -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Nicholas Nickleby -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Pickwick papers -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Strange gentleman -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Tale of two cities -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas carol -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mr. Nightingale's diary -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist -- Illustrations.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Sketches by Boz -- Illustrations.
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Correspondence.
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Diaries.
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Notebooks.
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Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
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Barham, R. H. Dalton (Richard Harris Dalton), 1815-1886.
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Bentley, George, 1828-1895.
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Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871.
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Brookfield, William Henry, 1809-1874.
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Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
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Cattermole, George, 1800-1868.
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Cerjat, William F. De.
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
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Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
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Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869.
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Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896.
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Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868.
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Dickens, Henry F. (Henry Fielding), Sir, 1849-1933.
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Dolby, George, d. 1900.
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Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862.
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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
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Hogarth, Georgina, 1827-1917.
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Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
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Kelly, Frances Maria, 1790-1882.
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Kitton, Frederic George, 1856-1904.
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Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
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La Rue, Emile de.
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Leech, John, 1817-1864.
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Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870.
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Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878.
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Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889.
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Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870.
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Macmillan, Alexander, 1818-1896.
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Mitton, Thomas.
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Morgan, E. S.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
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Pailthorpe, F. W. (Frederic W.)
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
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Roberts, David, 1896-1864.
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Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919.
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Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.
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Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854.
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Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869.
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
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Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863.
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Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892.
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Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880.
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Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950, Former owner.
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Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938, Former owner.
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Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912, Former owner.
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Browne, M. A, Former owner.
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Clendenin, Eve, Former owner.
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Cole, Hobart F, Former owner.
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Cosens, F. W. (Frederick William), 1819-1889, Former owner.
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Eccles, Mary Hyde, Donor.
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Glemby, Harry, Former owner.
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Hatton, Thomas, Former owner.
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Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner.
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Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966, Donor.
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Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928, Former owner.
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Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945, Former owner.
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Leech, Esther, Former owner.
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Leslie, C. R, Former owner.
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MacAfee, William H, Former owner.
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Matz, B. W. (Bertram Waldrom), 1865-1925, Former owner.
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McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928, Former owner.
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Stoddard-Howe, Richard Henry, Former owner.
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Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933, Former owner.
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Wilson, Rebecca Ball, Former owner.
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Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner.
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A. P. Watt and Son.
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Chapman and Hall.
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| Call No. |
Berg Coll MSS Dickens
[Text]
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| Research Call Number |
Berg Coll MSS Dickens [Text]
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*Z-10344 [Microfilm]
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