Catalogue of An
Exhibition
of the Works of Charles Dickens.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13
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C. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL
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CHAPTER X
DICKENS
I. AUTHORITIES
:
MSS, etc.
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. The following MSS
(the majority in Dickens's handwriting) and various valuable Dickensiana are
in the Forster collection: Oliver Twist; with other matter, concerning Pick-
wiok and Master Humphrey's Clock, bound in. The Lamplighter. A farce.
The Old Curiosity Shop. Sketches of Young Couples. Barnaby Budge.
American Notes. Martin Chuzzlewit. The Chimes. Travelling letters.
Written on the road (to The Daily News) afterwards republished in Pictures
from Italy. Dombey and Son. David Copperfield. Bleak House. Hard
Times. A Child's History of England. Little Dorrit. A Tale of Two
Cities. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Various dedications and memoranda.
Leaders, reviews, letters and articles contributed to The Examiner, The Daily
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News and Household Words. Proofs and revises of parts of works with MS
corrections. Proofs of articles in Household Words, etc. Letters to Forster
1836-64 and various letters. Dickensiana. Law and Commercial Daily
Remembrancer, 1831-41, with MS entries, 4 vols.
In the same collection are also proof-sheets of the following, with Dickens's
emendations and corrections (some, occasionally, by Forster): Master
Humphrey's Clock (the Clock matter, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby
Budge), Martin Chuzzlewit, The Chimes, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield,
Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations and portions
of Edwin Drood. [These are distributed over both Forster catalogues. ]
These proof-sheets, taken in conjunction with the MSS, afford an
interesting insight into the novelist's methods of work; and much may be
read-in this case, literally-between the lines.
British Museum. Additional MSS: Letter with biographical sketch
(1860), 2809, f. 426. Letters to T. Fraser (n. d. ), 29300, ff. 103, 105. Letter to
C. Kent (1870), 31022, f. 1. Letter to C. D. from H. C. Anderson (1851), 32343,
f. 5. Letters to M. Napier (1841-5), 34622, ff. 98, 199; 34623, ff. 33, 344, 585;
34624, ff. 85, 90, 141, 171, 334, 451; 34625, ff. 310, 331, 459, 519. Signature, etc.
(1844), 35026, f. 5. Letter to [Sir John? ] Bennett (1867), 35027, f. 1186.
Biographical notices and portraits, 35027, ff. 118-120. Letters to C. Babbage
(1841-51), 37191, f. 628; 37192, f. 299; 37193, f. 71; 37194, ff. 130, 477, 480, 515.
Letter to C. Cross (1870), 37232, f. 161. Page from the MS of The Pickwick
Papers, 38510, f. 234. Egerton MSS: Collections relating to C. D. , by E. R.
Moran (19th cent. ), 2154. Letters to T. A. Baylis (1861-2), 2264, ff. 22, 24.
Anecdotes of C. D. , by T. A. Baylis (19th cent. ), 2264, f. 42.
Unique copies of the novels, with their several points enumerated, will be
found in the General Catalogue. Also, numerous translations, parodies, etc.
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II. COLLECTED WORKS
Works. (Frontispiece illustrations only. ] 17 vols.