Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and
Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
archives@lclark.edu
503-768-7254
OLPb136DIC
The Charles Dickens Collection
1836-1896
2 cubic feet
3 boxes
Includes serial publications, original parts, proofs, photographs, and articles about the great English novelist, Charles Dickens. Most of the materials were produced during Dickens' life.
Special Collections Rare Books PR4500
English
Historical Note
Includes serial publications, original parts, proofs, photographs, and articles.
Arranged alphabetically by novel title, and by format and date for materials not associated with a specific novel.
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek
Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head
of Archives & Special Collections.
The Charles Dickens Collection, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey
Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Assembled by Paul Merchant and donated to Lewis & Clark College in 2011.
The collection will be periodically supplemented with similar materials by Charles Dickens.
Processed in 2012.
Other books by Dickens are housed with Special Collections Rare Books.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog.
Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should
search the catalog using these headings.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Novelists, English -- 19th century
Literature
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the
collection.
1.1
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club,
proof cover
1836
1.2
Nicholas Nickleby, proof cover and 5
illustrations
1838
1.3
Martin Chuzzlewit, proof cover
Jan.
1843
1.4
Dombey and Son, proof cover
Dec.
1846
1.5
Dombey and Son, no. 4
Mar.
1847
Chapters 17-19; London: Bradbury and Evans
1.6
David Copperfield, no. 1
May
1849
Chapters 1-3; London: Bradbury and Evans
1.7
Bleak House, 15 proofs for original
plates
1852
1.8
Bleak House, no. 1
Mar.
1852
Chapters 1-4; London: Bradbury and Evans
1.9
The New York Journal, vol. 2 part
2
Jun.
1854
Hard Times, chapters 7-10; New York: P.D. Orius
1.10
Household Words, vol. 9 no. 5
Sep.
1854
Hard Times, chapters 20-36; New York: T.L. McElrath and Co.
1.11
Little Dorrit, no. 3
Feb.
1856
Chapters 9-11; London: Bradbury and Evans
1.12
>Harpers's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 8 no.
68
undated
Little Dorrit, chapters 5-18
1.13
A Tale of Two Cities, proof cover
1859
1.14
Our Mutual Friend, proof cover
May
1864
1.15
Our Mutual Friend, no. 1
May
1864
Partial copy, chapters 1-4; London: Chapman and Hall
1.16
The Leisure Hour Library, vol. 3 no.
255
Aug.
1889
Our Mutual Friend, entire novel; New York: F.M. Lupton
1.17
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, no. 1
Apr.
1870
Chapters 1-5; London: Chapman and Hall
2.1
Household Words, vol. 8 no. 176
Aug.
1853
1 original copy, 1 photocopy
2.2
Household Words, part 91 nos.
393-397
Oct.
1857
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (not by Dickens)
2.3
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, the Extra
Christmas Number
Dec.
1865
2.4
Mugby Junction, the Extra Christmas
Number
Dec.
1866
Contains 8 stories, 4 by Charles Dickens: "Barbox Brothers"; "Barbox Brothers
and Co."; "Main Line: the Boy at Mugby"; "No. 1 Branch Line: The
Signalman"
2.5
Advertisements
undated
"The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices"; "Hard Times"; "New Work of
Fiction"
2.6
Charles Dickens, portrait
1839
2.7
Charles Dickens, portrait
photograph
c.
1868
2.8
Emlyn Williams as Dickens
c.
1958
playbill
2.9
book jacket for The Disappearance of Edwin Drood, by Peter
Rowland, cover
1991
2.10
book jacket for Dickens, Drood, and the Detectives, by Ray
Dubberke, cover
1992
3.1
The Illustrated London News
Jul.
1858
Illustration and brief description of Dickens reading
3.2
Harper's Weekly, a Journal of Civilization,
vol. 4 no. 204
Nov.
1860
Great Expectations, chapters 1-3
3.3
Harper's Weekly
Feb.
1869
Article titled "Mr. Charles Dickens's New Reading"
3.4
Every Saturday, an Illustrated Journal of
Choice Reading, vol. 1 no. 15
Apr.
1870
Article on Dickens, illustrations, and chapters 1-2 of T
he Mystery of Edwin
Drood
3.5
The Graphic
Dec.
1871
Portrait of Wilkie Collins
3.6
Sheet Music for Dombey and Son
1896
"What Are the Wild Waves Saying?", a duet between Paul and Florence; music by
Stephen Glover; Boston: F. Trifet