Charles Dickens collection of papers

id
1003
origination
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
date statement
1833]-[1975 [bulk 1833-1909]
key date
1833
identifier (local_mss)
19176
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Dickens [Text]
b-number
b15893398
total components
751
total series
4
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:04:04 UTC
updated
2026-08-14 02:11:45 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unittitle
{"value"=>"Charles Dickens collection of papers"}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"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."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Charles Dickens was a British novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials is from Henry W. and Albert A. Berg, W. T. H. Howe, and Owen D. Young. Much of this and other materials were previously owned by Jerome Kern, B. W. Matz, Frederick William Cosens, Harry Glemby, Herschel V. Jones, M. C. D. Borden, George Barr McCutcheon, and Roderick Terry, Esther Leech, C. R. Leslie, Miss M. A. Browne, Eve Clendenin, Richard Henry Stoddard-Howe, Mrs. Rebecca Ball Wilson, Thomas Hatton, Hobart F. Cole, and William H. MacAfee. R. H. Barham's holograph notebook and commonplace book was a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hyde in honor of Dr. Albert A. Berg.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Charles Dickens collection of papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19176#c218430'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19176#c218490'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19176#c219062'>Financial and Legal Documents</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19176#c219103'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
altformavail
{"value"=>"<p>Microfilm of selected items in the collection is available: Dickens' 1867 holograph diary; Dickens' reading copies; Dicken's reading copy of Christmas Carol, 1849; Dickens' Sikes and Nancy, 1921; Dickens' Gaskell letters; Dickens' reading copies of the Boy at Mugby and signalman; Dickens' Boots at the Holly Tree Inn, 1858; Great Expectations; and Dickens' holograph memoranda book; and Francesco Berger's Overture to the drama by Mr. Wilkie Collins, The Frozen Deep, 1857. Contact the staff for more information.</p>"}
physloc
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date_inclusive_start
1833
date_inclusive_end
1975
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1833
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
1,225 items
date_start
1833
date_end
1975
date_bulk_start
1833
date_bulk_end
1909

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