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Add MS 88903/1
- Record Id:
- 036-000001283
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000001282
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x000023
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88903/1
- 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 associated with the agreements. Items also include legal documents relating to court proceedings brought against Dickens by his publishers, often presided over by the judges James Bacon or Arthur Hobhouse. His publishers included John Macrone; Edward Chapman and William Hall of Chapman and Hall; Richard Bentley; Frederick Mullett Evans and William Bradbury and sons of Bradbury and Evans; and Henry Colburn. From 1836 Dickens was producing works for John Macrone, Richard Bentley and Chapman and Hall. From 1840 Chapman and Hall became his sole publishers. In 1844 Dickens moved from Chapman and Hall, following a disagreement, to the printers Bradbury and Evans. In 1858 Dickens fell out with Bradbury and Evans after they did not print a personal notice relating to the disintegration of Dickens's marriage in Punch. Dickens returned to Chapman and Hall and remained with them until his death in 1870.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000001282
036-000001283 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88903 : Charles Dickens Legal Papers
Add MS 88903/1 : Publishing papers: legal documents and agreements - Contains:
- Add MS 88903/1/1 : The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Add MS 88903/1/2 : Nicholas Nickleby
Add MS 88903/1/3 : Bentley's Miscellany
Add MS 88903/1/4 : Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Add MS 88903/1/5 : Pic Nic Papers
Add MS 88903/1/6 : Master Humphrey's Clock
Add MS 88903/1/7 : Barnaby Rudge
Add MS 88903/1/8 : Sketches by Boz
Add MS 88903/1/9 : Martin Chuzzlewit', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Chimes
Add MS 88903/1/10 : 'Household Words' 1
Add MS 88903/1/11 : 'Household Words' 2
Add MS 88903/1/12 : 'Household Words' 3
Add MS 88903/1/13 : All the Year Round
Add MS 88903/1/14 : 'A Strange Story' by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Add MS 88903/1/15 : Our Mutual Friend
Add MS 88903/1/16 : Miscellaneous publishing papers
Add MS 88903/1/17 : The Letters of Charles Dickens
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- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 17 folders
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1837
- End Date:
- 1879
- Date Range:
- 1837-1879
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Arrangement:
- Arranged under specific publications and then chronologically.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bacon, James, Knight, judge and Privy Councillor, 1798-1895
Bentley, Richard, publisher; father of George Bentley, 1794-1871
Bradbury and Evans, printers, 1830-1872
Bradbury, William, printer, 1800-1869
Chapman, Edward, publisher, 1804-1880
Colburn, Henry, publisher, 1784-1855
Evans, Frederick Mullett, printer and publisher, 1803-1870
Hall, William, publisher, c 1800-1847
Hobhouse, Arthur, Baron Hobhouse of Hadspen, judge, 1819-1904
Macrone, John, publisher, 1809-1837