by Melville, Lewis, from the
text of the first edns, and including many miscellaneous articles rptd for
the first time.
text of the first edns, and including many miscellaneous articles rptd for
the first time.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13
June 1860.
Also in Harper, New York, Feb. -July 1860. 1861.
The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life.
Ptd in The Cornhill (4 nos. ), July-Oct. 1860. Also, in Harper, New York,
August-Nov. 1860, and in Littell’s Living Age. New York, 1860. 1861.
## p. 528 (#544) ############################################
528
[Ch.
Bibliography
The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World, Shewing who
Robbed him, who Helped him, and who Passed him by (some ills. by
Walker, Frederick). Printed in The Cornhill (20 nos. ), Jan. 1861-
August 1862. Also in Harper, New York, Feb. 1861-Sept. 1862. 3 vols.
1862.
Denis Duval (ill. by Walker, Frederick). Ptd in The Cornhill (4 nos. ), A pril-
June 1864. Also in Harper, New York, April, May, July, August 1864.
B. COLLECTIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, STORIES, ETC.
Comic Tales and Sketches, edited and illustrated by Mr Michael Angelo
Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1841.
Mr Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town; with the Proser, and other
Papers. New York, 1853. Mr Brown's Letters were rptd from Punch
(18 nos. ), 24 March-18 August 1849. The Proser, Essays and Discourses
by Dr Solomon Pacifico, was ptd in Punch (7 nos. ), 20 April-3 August
1850; only three nos. were rptd in this edn. The other papers, nine in
number, were rptd from Punch of 1845, 1848, 1849, 1850.
Punch's Prize Novelists, The Fat Contributor and Travels in London. New
York, 1853. For Punch's Prize Novelists, see sect. A, ante. The Fat
Contributor included, with a few exceptions, the scattered articles which
had appeared under that name in Punch (17 nos. ) from 3 August 1844 to
30 Oct. 1847. Travels in London included, with one exception, the con-
tributions to Punch ptd under that title (14 nos. ) from 20 Nov. 1847
to 25 March 1848, Waiting at the Station, from Punch, 9 March 1850,
and Going to See a Man Hanged, from Fraser, August 1840.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. Vol. 1. 1855. In addition to The Book of
Snobs, The Fatal Boots, Cox's Diary and Major Gahagan, this included
the collected Ballads, which were also issued in a separate vol. These
consisted of 44 fugitive pieces from various sources, the earliest in date
being Four German Ditties, originally ptd in Fraser for May 1838. The
most important are The Legend of St Sophia of Kioff, originally ptd
as The Great Cossack Epic of Demetrius Rigmarolovicz in Fraser for
Dec. 1839; The Chronicle of the Drum, published separately in 1841 with
The Second Funeral of Napoleon; and The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, from
Punch, 17 Feb. 1849. Some occasional lyrics were rptd from the prose
works in which they first appeared. Various contributions to Punch
bear the sub-titles Love Songs Made Easy (from Punch, 1846); Lyra
Hibernica, or the Poems of the Molony of Ballymolony (from Punch,
1845, 1850, 1851); and Ballads of Policeman X (from Punch, 1845, 1848,
1850). Other pieces were added later in collected editions of Thackeray's
works, and in their final form the Ballads include all the lyrics from
his prose works.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. Vol. 11. 1856. These, in addition to Memoirs
of Mr O. J. Yellowplush, The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , and
Novels by Eminent Hands, included (1) Sketches and Travels in London,
combining Mr Brown's Letters to a Young Man (now called Mr Brown's
Letters to his Nephew) with Travels in London (omitting one of the nos.
rptd in 1853; and (2) Character Sketches, three miscellaneous pieces
originally ptd in 1839 and 1841. Sketches and Travels in London were,
also, published separately, and Character Sketches with Novels, by
Eminent Hands, 1856.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. Vol. III. 1856. Vol. iv. 1857.
Christmas Books. 1857.
## p. 529 (#545) ############################################
IX]
Thackeray
529
Roundabout Papers. 1863. New York, 1863. Rptd from Cornhill (18 nos. ),
Jan. 1860-Jan. 1862, with two additional papers originally ptd in Corn-
hill, Feb. and Nov. 1860.
Early and Late Papers, hitherto Uncollected (introd. by Fields, J. T. ).
Boston, 1867. These included rpts of articles from Fraser, originally ptd
between June 1841 (Memorials of Gormandising) and May 1844 (Little
Travels and Roadside Sketches), John Leech's Pictures of Life and
Character, from The Quarterly Review, Dec. 1854, the last nine nos. of
Roundabout Papers, from The Cornhill Magazine, April 1862-Feb. 1863,
four other papers from The Cornbill, April 1860, April, August and
Nov. 1863, and four other miscellaneous papers.
Works. Library (1st collected edn). 22 vols. 1867-9. Ballads (vol. xviii)
included numerous additions, chiefly of lyrics from the prose works.
Roundabout Papers included nos. 1-8, as in 1863, no. 19, from The Cornhill,
Feb. 1862, nos. 20-28, and the miscellaneous articles from The Cornhill
already rptd in 1867. Two supplementary vols. were published in 1885
and 1886. Vol. xxiii included several miscellaneous articles chiefly from
Fraser, and, with other articles from Punch, Wanderings of the Fat
Contributor, with the exception of one no. but with additions not in-
cluded in the New York edn of 1853. Much of the material had been
rptd in Early and Late Papers, Boston, 1867, and in Miscellanies, vol. v,
Boston, 1870. Vol. xxiv consisted mainly of articles rptd from Punch,
and included inter alia the remaining piece by the Fat Contributor and
Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, from Punch (11 nos. ),
2 July-1 Oct. 1842.
Thackerayana, notes and anecdotes illustrated by nearly six hundred
sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray. [Ed. Grego, Joseph. ]
1875.
The Orphan of Pimlico, and other Sketches, Fragments, and Drawings
(notes by Thackeray, Isabella Anne). 1876.
Works. Cheaper Illustrated edn. 24 vols. 1877-9. A few miscellaneous
pieces added to Travels and Sketches in London (vol. xiv) and Ballads
(vol. xxi).
Sultan Stork, and other Stories and Sketches, by William Makepeace
Thackeray (1829–44), now first collected. 1887. For Sultan Stork see
sect. A, ante. Several early miscellaneous articles were included, the
most important being Dickens in France, from Fraser, March 1842, and
the review of Carlyle's French Revolution, from The Times, 3 August
1837. The doubtful Elizabeth Brownrigge, from Fraser, August and
Sept. 1829, and Thackeray's contributions to The Snob, 1829, and The
National Standard, 1833-4, were also collected for the first time.
Works. Pocket edn. 27 vols. 1887.
Works. 22 vols. Boston, 1889. Miscellaneous additions from Punch rptd
in vol. xxi and three additions made to Miscellaneous Papers and
Sketches (vol. XXII). The review of Carlyle's French Revolution and
other articles, already rptd, were added to a collected edn of the Works
for the first time.
Loose Sketches, An Eastern Adventure, etc. 1894. Loose Sketches, by
M. A. Titmarsh, rptd from Britannia (6 nos. ), 1 May-5 July 1841; An
Eastern Adventure of the Fat Contributor (ill. by Leech, John), from
Punch's Pocket-Book, 1847. This vol. also included 'the preface to
Sketches after English Landscape Painters, by Marvy, L. , with Short
Notices by Thackeray, W. M. , 1850.
Works, with Biographical Introductions by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. 13 vols.
1898-9.
34
E. L. XIII.
## p. 530 (#546) ############################################
530
[CH.
Bibliography
The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions of W. M. Thackeray to Punch,
with a complete authoritative bibliography from 1845 to 1848, by Spiel-
mann, M. H. London and New York, 1899.
Writings in The National Standard and The Constitutional. 1899.
Stray Papers. . . being Stories, Reviews, Verses, and Sketches (1829-51), edited
with an introd. and notes by Melville, Lewis. 1901.
Prose Works. Ed. Jerrold, Walter. 13 vols. 1901-3.
Works. 20 vols. 1901-7. Vols. VIII-xx, ed.
by Melville, Lewis, from the
text of the first edns, and including many miscellaneous articles rptd for
the first time.
The New Sketch Book, being Essays now first collected from The Foreign
Quarterly Review (ed. Garnett, Robert S. ) 1906.
Works. Ed. Saintsbury, George. 17 vols. Oxford, 1908. Many mis-
cellaneous papers rptd in a collected edn for the first time, and a few
additions.
C. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL
Brookfield, Charles and Frances. Mrs Brookfield and her Circle. 1905.
FitzGerald, Edward. Letters, etc. Vol. 1. 1889.
Gilfillan, G. Galleries of Literary Portraits. Vol. 11. 1857.
Lang, A. Lost Leaders. 2nd edn. 1892.
Melville, Lewis. William Makepeace Thackeray, a biography. 2 vols. 1910.
[A full list of authorities, including many scattered magazine articles, in
vol. 11, pp. 133-142. ]
The Thackeray Country. 1905.
Merivale, Herman C. and Marzials, Sir F. T. W. M. Thackeray. 1891,
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Memoirs. 1894.
Saintsbury, G. Corrected Impressions. 1895.
Spielmann, M. H. The History of Punch. 1895.
Thaokeray, W. M. A Collection of Letters of W. M. Thackeray, 1847–55
(ed, Brookfield, J. O. ). 2nd edn. 1887.
Letters to an American Family. (Introd. by Baxter, L. W. ) 1904.
Thackerayana, Notes and Anecdotes. (Ed. Grego, J. ) New edn. 1901.
Trollope, A. Thackeray. (English Men of Letters. ) 1879.
Whibley, C. William Makepeace Thackeray. 1903.
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
## p. 531 (#547) ############################################
x]
Dickens
531
:
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.
Bibliography
Anderson, J. P. Bibliography attached to Marzials' Life. 1887.
Catalogue of An Exhibition of the Works of Charles Dickens. With an
introduction by Cortissoz, Royal. The Grolier Club. New York, 1913.
Catalogue of the Paintings, Manuscripts. . . pamphlets, etc. Bequeathed
by John Forster. . . South Kensington Mus. 1893.
Catalogue of the Printed Books bequeathed by John Forster . . . South
Kensington Mus. 1888. [See, also, Catalogue of Dickens Exhibition,
Victoria and Albert Mus. , March to Oct. 1912, Ken. Mus. , 1912. ]
Cook, James.
Also in Harper, New York, Feb. -July 1860. 1861.
The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life.
Ptd in The Cornhill (4 nos. ), July-Oct. 1860. Also, in Harper, New York,
August-Nov. 1860, and in Littell’s Living Age. New York, 1860. 1861.
## p. 528 (#544) ############################################
528
[Ch.
Bibliography
The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World, Shewing who
Robbed him, who Helped him, and who Passed him by (some ills. by
Walker, Frederick). Printed in The Cornhill (20 nos. ), Jan. 1861-
August 1862. Also in Harper, New York, Feb. 1861-Sept. 1862. 3 vols.
1862.
Denis Duval (ill. by Walker, Frederick). Ptd in The Cornhill (4 nos. ), A pril-
June 1864. Also in Harper, New York, April, May, July, August 1864.
B. COLLECTIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, STORIES, ETC.
Comic Tales and Sketches, edited and illustrated by Mr Michael Angelo
Titmarsh. 2 vols. 1841.
Mr Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town; with the Proser, and other
Papers. New York, 1853. Mr Brown's Letters were rptd from Punch
(18 nos. ), 24 March-18 August 1849. The Proser, Essays and Discourses
by Dr Solomon Pacifico, was ptd in Punch (7 nos. ), 20 April-3 August
1850; only three nos. were rptd in this edn. The other papers, nine in
number, were rptd from Punch of 1845, 1848, 1849, 1850.
Punch's Prize Novelists, The Fat Contributor and Travels in London. New
York, 1853. For Punch's Prize Novelists, see sect. A, ante. The Fat
Contributor included, with a few exceptions, the scattered articles which
had appeared under that name in Punch (17 nos. ) from 3 August 1844 to
30 Oct. 1847. Travels in London included, with one exception, the con-
tributions to Punch ptd under that title (14 nos. ) from 20 Nov. 1847
to 25 March 1848, Waiting at the Station, from Punch, 9 March 1850,
and Going to See a Man Hanged, from Fraser, August 1840.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. Vol. 1. 1855. In addition to The Book of
Snobs, The Fatal Boots, Cox's Diary and Major Gahagan, this included
the collected Ballads, which were also issued in a separate vol. These
consisted of 44 fugitive pieces from various sources, the earliest in date
being Four German Ditties, originally ptd in Fraser for May 1838. The
most important are The Legend of St Sophia of Kioff, originally ptd
as The Great Cossack Epic of Demetrius Rigmarolovicz in Fraser for
Dec. 1839; The Chronicle of the Drum, published separately in 1841 with
The Second Funeral of Napoleon; and The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, from
Punch, 17 Feb. 1849. Some occasional lyrics were rptd from the prose
works in which they first appeared. Various contributions to Punch
bear the sub-titles Love Songs Made Easy (from Punch, 1846); Lyra
Hibernica, or the Poems of the Molony of Ballymolony (from Punch,
1845, 1850, 1851); and Ballads of Policeman X (from Punch, 1845, 1848,
1850). Other pieces were added later in collected editions of Thackeray's
works, and in their final form the Ballads include all the lyrics from
his prose works.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. Vol. 11. 1856. These, in addition to Memoirs
of Mr O. J. Yellowplush, The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. , and
Novels by Eminent Hands, included (1) Sketches and Travels in London,
combining Mr Brown's Letters to a Young Man (now called Mr Brown's
Letters to his Nephew) with Travels in London (omitting one of the nos.
rptd in 1853; and (2) Character Sketches, three miscellaneous pieces
originally ptd in 1839 and 1841. Sketches and Travels in London were,
also, published separately, and Character Sketches with Novels, by
Eminent Hands, 1856.
Miscellanies, Prose and Verse. Vol. III. 1856. Vol. iv. 1857.
Christmas Books. 1857.
## p. 529 (#545) ############################################
IX]
Thackeray
529
Roundabout Papers. 1863. New York, 1863. Rptd from Cornhill (18 nos. ),
Jan. 1860-Jan. 1862, with two additional papers originally ptd in Corn-
hill, Feb. and Nov. 1860.
Early and Late Papers, hitherto Uncollected (introd. by Fields, J. T. ).
Boston, 1867. These included rpts of articles from Fraser, originally ptd
between June 1841 (Memorials of Gormandising) and May 1844 (Little
Travels and Roadside Sketches), John Leech's Pictures of Life and
Character, from The Quarterly Review, Dec. 1854, the last nine nos. of
Roundabout Papers, from The Cornhill Magazine, April 1862-Feb. 1863,
four other papers from The Cornbill, April 1860, April, August and
Nov. 1863, and four other miscellaneous papers.
Works. Library (1st collected edn). 22 vols. 1867-9. Ballads (vol. xviii)
included numerous additions, chiefly of lyrics from the prose works.
Roundabout Papers included nos. 1-8, as in 1863, no. 19, from The Cornhill,
Feb. 1862, nos. 20-28, and the miscellaneous articles from The Cornhill
already rptd in 1867. Two supplementary vols. were published in 1885
and 1886. Vol. xxiii included several miscellaneous articles chiefly from
Fraser, and, with other articles from Punch, Wanderings of the Fat
Contributor, with the exception of one no. but with additions not in-
cluded in the New York edn of 1853. Much of the material had been
rptd in Early and Late Papers, Boston, 1867, and in Miscellanies, vol. v,
Boston, 1870. Vol. xxiv consisted mainly of articles rptd from Punch,
and included inter alia the remaining piece by the Fat Contributor and
Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, from Punch (11 nos. ),
2 July-1 Oct. 1842.
Thackerayana, notes and anecdotes illustrated by nearly six hundred
sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray. [Ed. Grego, Joseph. ]
1875.
The Orphan of Pimlico, and other Sketches, Fragments, and Drawings
(notes by Thackeray, Isabella Anne). 1876.
Works. Cheaper Illustrated edn. 24 vols. 1877-9. A few miscellaneous
pieces added to Travels and Sketches in London (vol. xiv) and Ballads
(vol. xxi).
Sultan Stork, and other Stories and Sketches, by William Makepeace
Thackeray (1829–44), now first collected. 1887. For Sultan Stork see
sect. A, ante. Several early miscellaneous articles were included, the
most important being Dickens in France, from Fraser, March 1842, and
the review of Carlyle's French Revolution, from The Times, 3 August
1837. The doubtful Elizabeth Brownrigge, from Fraser, August and
Sept. 1829, and Thackeray's contributions to The Snob, 1829, and The
National Standard, 1833-4, were also collected for the first time.
Works. Pocket edn. 27 vols. 1887.
Works. 22 vols. Boston, 1889. Miscellaneous additions from Punch rptd
in vol. xxi and three additions made to Miscellaneous Papers and
Sketches (vol. XXII). The review of Carlyle's French Revolution and
other articles, already rptd, were added to a collected edn of the Works
for the first time.
Loose Sketches, An Eastern Adventure, etc. 1894. Loose Sketches, by
M. A. Titmarsh, rptd from Britannia (6 nos. ), 1 May-5 July 1841; An
Eastern Adventure of the Fat Contributor (ill. by Leech, John), from
Punch's Pocket-Book, 1847. This vol. also included 'the preface to
Sketches after English Landscape Painters, by Marvy, L. , with Short
Notices by Thackeray, W. M. , 1850.
Works, with Biographical Introductions by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. 13 vols.
1898-9.
34
E. L. XIII.
## p. 530 (#546) ############################################
530
[CH.
Bibliography
The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions of W. M. Thackeray to Punch,
with a complete authoritative bibliography from 1845 to 1848, by Spiel-
mann, M. H. London and New York, 1899.
Writings in The National Standard and The Constitutional. 1899.
Stray Papers. . . being Stories, Reviews, Verses, and Sketches (1829-51), edited
with an introd. and notes by Melville, Lewis. 1901.
Prose Works. Ed. Jerrold, Walter. 13 vols. 1901-3.
Works. 20 vols. 1901-7. Vols. VIII-xx, ed.
by Melville, Lewis, from the
text of the first edns, and including many miscellaneous articles rptd for
the first time.
The New Sketch Book, being Essays now first collected from The Foreign
Quarterly Review (ed. Garnett, Robert S. ) 1906.
Works. Ed. Saintsbury, George. 17 vols. Oxford, 1908. Many mis-
cellaneous papers rptd in a collected edn for the first time, and a few
additions.
C. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL
Brookfield, Charles and Frances. Mrs Brookfield and her Circle. 1905.
FitzGerald, Edward. Letters, etc. Vol. 1. 1889.
Gilfillan, G. Galleries of Literary Portraits. Vol. 11. 1857.
Lang, A. Lost Leaders. 2nd edn. 1892.
Melville, Lewis. William Makepeace Thackeray, a biography. 2 vols. 1910.
[A full list of authorities, including many scattered magazine articles, in
vol. 11, pp. 133-142. ]
The Thackeray Country. 1905.
Merivale, Herman C. and Marzials, Sir F. T. W. M. Thackeray. 1891,
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Memoirs. 1894.
Saintsbury, G. Corrected Impressions. 1895.
Spielmann, M. H. The History of Punch. 1895.
Thaokeray, W. M. A Collection of Letters of W. M. Thackeray, 1847–55
(ed, Brookfield, J. O. ). 2nd edn. 1887.
Letters to an American Family. (Introd. by Baxter, L. W. ) 1904.
Thackerayana, Notes and Anecdotes. (Ed. Grego, J. ) New edn. 1901.
Trollope, A. Thackeray. (English Men of Letters. ) 1879.
Whibley, C. William Makepeace Thackeray. 1903.
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
## p. 531 (#547) ############################################
x]
Dickens
531
:
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.
Bibliography
Anderson, J. P. Bibliography attached to Marzials' Life. 1887.
Catalogue of An Exhibition of the Works of Charles Dickens. With an
introduction by Cortissoz, Royal. The Grolier Club. New York, 1913.
Catalogue of the Paintings, Manuscripts. . . pamphlets, etc. Bequeathed
by John Forster. . . South Kensington Mus. 1893.
Catalogue of the Printed Books bequeathed by John Forster . . . South
Kensington Mus. 1888. [See, also, Catalogue of Dickens Exhibition,
Victoria and Albert Mus. , March to Oct. 1912, Ken. Mus. , 1912. ]
Cook, James.
