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Dickens, Charles (Son), Letters to The Lecture Agency, Ltd., 1891-1893

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Letters relate to North American lecture tours; one letter is addressed specifically to Gerald Christy, the company's managing director.

Arrangement

The folders in the Author Files are filed alphabetically by name, and under a single name in roughly the following order: miscellaneous correspondence, i.e., letters to various correspondents; letters to certain individuals; letters addressed to the main entry of the folder; miscellaneous manuscript material and/or documents; manuscripts of and/or documents relating to individual works, alphabetically by title.

Collection History

Acquisition:

AM 2017-159

Purchase, 2017

Appraisal

Some artwork has been moved to the Graphic Arts Collection.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Sylvia Yu in 2000. Finding aid written by Sylvia Yu in 2000.

Restrictions on Lewis Carroll photographs were lifted in 2023 as part of a restrictions review project.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.

Credit this material:

Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896 (Son), Letters to The Lecture Agency, Ltd.; M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, C0171, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (hsvm): Box 45

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Related Materials

A typescript catalogue of printed material (1000+ pages) in the collection was originally prepared between December 1978 and June 1981, but has since been superceded by work (viewable in PDF file format) at this URL: http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/parrish/

Additional information on the collection is located at: http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/h-tor-z.html (scroll down to the section on "Victorian Novelists")

For details on the growth of the Parrish collection between 1944 and 1956 refer to: Alexander D. Wainwright, "The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists: A Summary Report and an Introduction," in the Princeton University Library Chronicle XVII, (Winter, 1956) pp. 59-67. The Princeton University Library Chronicle devoted two entire issues to this collection (VIII, 1, November 1946 and XVII, 2, Winter 1956).

For Lewis Carroll photograph holdings, see Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling, Lewis Carroll Photographer: The Princeton University Library Albums (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002).

Bibliography

"A Summary Report and an Introduction," Alexander D. Wainwright, The Princeton University Library Chronicle (Volume XVII, Number 2, Winter 1956, pp. 59-67).

Names:
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882)
Barrie, J.M. (James Matthew) (1860-1937)
Black, William (1841-1898)
Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth) (1835-1915)
Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
Brontë, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848)
Browne, Hablot Knight (1815-1882)
Brussel, I. R. (Isidore Rosenbaum) (1895)
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (1826-1887)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881)
Du Maurier, George (1834-1896)
Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934)
Holiday, Henry (1839-1927)
Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896)
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)
Lever, Charles (1806-1872)
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron (1803-1873)
Meredith, George (1828-1909)
Ouida (1839-1908)
Randall, David A. (David Anton) (1905-1975)
Reade, Charles (1814-1884)
Sadleir, Michael (1888-1957)
Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Thirkell, Angela (1890-1961)
Trollope, Anthony
Trollope, Frances Eleanor (1835-1913)
Trollope, Frances Milton (1780-1863)
Trollope, Theodosia Garrow (1825-1865)
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (1810-1892)
Wilson, Carroll A. (Carroll Atwood) (1886-1947)
Wood, Ellen Price
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) (1823-1901)