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Description: 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.
Names: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Creator); Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (Associated name); Barham, R. H. Dalton (Richard Harris Dalton), 1815-1886 (Associated name); Bentley, George, 1828-1895 (Associated name); Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871 (Associated name); Berg, Albert A., 1872-1950 (Associated name); Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938 (Associated name); Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 (Associated name); Brookfield, William Henry, 1809-1874 (Associated name); Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882 (Associated name); Browne, M. A (Associated name); Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (Associated name); Cattermole, George, 1800-1868 (Associated name); Cerjat, William F. De (Associated name); Clendenin, Eve (Associated name); Cole, Hobart F (Associated name); Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 (Associated name); Cosens, F. W. (Frederick William), 1819-1889 (Associated name); Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 (Associated name); Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869 (Associated name); Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896 (Associated name); Dickens, Frederick William, 1820-1868 (Associated name); Dickens, Henry F. (Henry Fielding), Sir, 1849-1933 (Associated name); Dolby, George, d. 1900 (Associated name); Eccles, Mary Hyde (Donor); Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862 (Associated name); Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 (Associated name); Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 (Associated name); Glemby, Harry (Associated name); Hatton, Thomas (Associated name); Hogarth, Georgina, 1827-1917 (Associated name); Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), 1874-1939 (Associated name); Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 (Associated name); Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966 (Donor); Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (Associated name); Jones, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1861-1928 (Associated name); Kelly, Frances Maria, 1790-1882 (Associated name); Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 (Associated name); Kitton, Frederic George, 1856-1904 (Associated name); La Rue, Emile de (Associated name); Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864 (Associated name); Leech, Esther (Associated name); Leech, John, 1817-1864 (Associated name); Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 (Associated name); Leslie, C. R (Associated name); Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878 (Associated name); MacAfee, William H (Associated name); Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 (Associated name); Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 (Associated name); Macmillan, Alexander, 1818-1896 (Associated name); Matz, B. W. (Bertram Waldrom), 1865-1925 (Associated name); McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928 (Associated name); Mitton, Thomas (Associated name); Morgan, E. S (Associated name); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 (Associated name); Pailthorpe, F. W. (Frederic W.) (Associated name); Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (Associated name); Roberts, David, 1896-1864 (Associated name); Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 (Associated name); Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867 (Associated name); Stoddard-Howe, Richard Henry (Associated name); Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854 (Associated name); Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869 (Associated name); Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933 (Associated name); Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (Associated name); Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863 (Associated name); Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892; Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880 (Associated name); Wilson, Rebecca Ball (Associated name); Young, Owen D., 1874- (Associated name); A. P. Watt and Son (Associated name); Chapman and Hall (Associated name)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1833 - 1975 (Inferred)
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Dickens [Text]; Shelf locator: *Z-10344
Topics: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Genres: Correspondence; Diaries; Notebooks
Notes: Biographical/historical: Charles Dickens was a British novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.; Content: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, 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. 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.; Content: Card catalog available.
Physical Description: Extent: 1,225 items; Microfilms
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Dickens [Text]; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15893398; MSS Unit ID: 19176; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2ce15630-bc04-0135-99c7-6b978b10e685

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