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Title:
Charles Dickens Legal Papers
Scope & Content:
The collection comprises publishing papers detailing legal and financial dealings between Charles Dickens or his representatives and his publishers; domestic papers; executor's papers and accounts from the estate of Charles Dickens; papers from the estate of Mary Dickens and related family docum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1897
Extent:
23 folders

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Title:
Publishing papers: legal documents and agreements
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Charles Dickens's dealings and negotiations with his publishers. Also includes papers relating to the posthumous publication of The Letters of Charles Dickens. In addition to the drafts of legal agreements, items include letters, financial documents, notices and memoranda assoc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1879
Extent:
17 folders

3. Add MS 88903/1/1

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Title:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Scope & Content:
Novel by Charles Dickens, serialised by Chapman and Hall in nineteen issues over twenty months from Mar 1836 to Oct 1837. File includes draft documents and instructions for agreements relating to copyright.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1837-18 Nov 1837
Extent:
1 folder

4. Add MS 88903/1/1/1

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Title:
Instructions for James Bacon to draw up an agreement between Charles Dickens and Chapman and Hall
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1837
Extent:
3 leaves

5. Add MS 88903/1/1/2

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Title:
Draft document of agreement between Charles Dickens and Chapman and Hall
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1837
Extent:
19 leaves, tied

6. Add MS 88903/1/1/3

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Title:
Draft document of agreement between Charles Dickens and Chapman and Hall
Scope & Content:
Signed by William Chapman and James Bacon.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1837-18 Nov 1837
Extent:
13 leaves, tied

7. Add MS 88903/1/1/4

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Title:
Instructions for James Bacon to draw up an agreement between Charles Dickens and Chapman and Hall
Scope & Content:
Relating to the completed publication.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1837
Extent:
1 leaf

8. Add MS 88903/1/1/5

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Title:
Accounts of March 1836-Nov. 1837 relating to the publication
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 leaf

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Title:
Nicholas Nickleby
Scope & Content:
Novel by Charles Dickens, serialised by Chapman and Hall in twenty monthly parts from April 1838 to Oct 1839. Items include a draft document of agreement between Dickens and Chapman and Hall relating to the form the publications should take, timescale and copyright; and two draft contracts concer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 folder

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Title:
Bentley's Miscellany
Scope & Content:
Journal started by Richard Bentley in 1836, Dickens was the first editor and 'Oliver Twist' was serialised in it from Feb 1837 to Apr 1839. The relationship was not harmonious, with Bentley interfering with the editorship and Dickens failing to fulfil some contractual obligations. Dickens resigne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1837-2 Jul 1840
Extent:
1 folder