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Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1803-1873. Autograph letter signed : [London], to W.H. Wills, [18]67 "Friday, 8."

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to W.H. Wills, [18]67 "Friday, 8."

Breaking an appointment because of a command from the Prince of Wales.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270595908 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1838-1868.

Letters relating to his literary productions, including references to Oliver Twist, The lamplighter, A tale of two cities, and Household words; letter to W.H. Wills on child labour and its exposure in literature.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 items ; 28 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7313328 View

Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913. Autograph letter signed : Florence, to W.H. Wills, 1868 Mar. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Florence, to W.H. Wills, 1868 Mar. 22.

Concerning her work for All the Year Round and the German translation of her Mabel's Progress.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270573260 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 1850 Mar. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 1850 Mar. 20.

Inviting Austin to dine, and enclosing (not present) the proofs for an article ["The Troubled Water Question"] by Dickens' sub editor Wills, asking Austin "whether there is anything challengable in it."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 19.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495852176 View

Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936,. Financial statements, 1859-1867.

Title: Financial statements, 1859-1867.

Half-yearly statements of the profits of the journal All the year round and their division between the editor Charles Dickens and his partner, W.H. Wills. All bear Dickens's signature, and two are signed by both men.

ArchivalResource: 16 items (16 p.) in case ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580987 View

Charles Dickens Legal Papers, 1837-1897

Title: Charles Dickens Legal Papers 1837-1897

ArchivalResource: 23 folders

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms88903 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Document concerning the publication of Charles Reade's book Hard in the periodical All the Year Round, 1862 Jan. 31.

Title: Document concerning the publication of Charles Reade's book Hard in the periodical All the Year Round, 1862 Jan. 31.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (fol.) & with envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270616442 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 19.

Praising Collins' "Sister-Rose," and offering suggestions on refining the text. Inquiring after Collins, and asking whether he shall come up to Ashford, noting that "Mark [Lemon] (whose face is at present enormous) is going." Mentioning [William Henry] Wills, Dickens' talk at the Literary Fund, and [John] Forster, and asking for [Edward Frederick Smyth] Pigott's address.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463321858 View

Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872,. Letters from celebrated authors and other eminent men, 1847-1887.

Title: Letters from celebrated authors and other eminent men, 1847-1887.

The volumes contain original letters tipped onto the leaves. The principal writers are: John Blackwood, Isaac Butt, Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, the Earl of Derby, Charles Dickens, Maria Edgeworth, John Forster, T. C. Grattan, James Hudson, G. P. R. James, Henry James, Henry L. Jephson, Charles Kent, A. W. Kinglake, Edward Lear, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Lever, Samuel Lover, Lord Lytton, Lord Robert Bulwer Lytton, James McGlashan, the Earl of Malmesbury, W. H. Maxwell, Mrs. Oliphant, John L. O'Sullivan, Mortimer O'Sullivan, Edmund Phipps, W. H. Russell, George A. Sala, Peter C. Scarlett, George Smith, Alexander Spencer, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, John Francis Waller, James Whiteside, William Henry Wills, Lascelles Wraxall, Edmund Yates, and Sir Henry Yule. Also included are a few letters to others, mostly members of Lever's family; notices of his death; and a lock of his hair (vol. 1 fol. 48).

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 May 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 May 11.

Noting that he would be pleased to read Collins' play [The Lighthouse], and discussing his plans to stay in Folkstone during the Autumn and his hopes to visit Paris for six months, asking Collins to join him. Mentioning [William Henry] Wills and describing a bout of writer's block.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463332938 View

Ralph Hardee Rives Collection, 1852-2015

Title: Ralph Hardee Rives Collection, 1852-2015

Collection (1852-2014) includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and other items compiled by retired East Carolina University English professor Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives relating primarily to the Hardee - Rives and related families of North Carolina and the United Kingdom, the history of Eastern North Carolina (especially Halifax County and the town of Enfield), the United Methodist Church in Eastern North Carolina, state and local and national politics, and his charitable and philanthropic interests. The earliest original documents cover the period from 1852 through the Civil War and World War I.

ArchivalResource: 30.15 Cubic feet, 71 archival boxes and 5 oversize folders

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0024 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 1850 Mar. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 1850 Mar. 21.

Confirming an appointment for the following day and discussing Wills' article ["The Troubled Water Question"], asking for an honest review of it. Noting that Wills "has not the ghost of an idea in the imaginative way," but that Dickens has hired him as sub editor because of his business skills. Mentioning that the following day Dickens will show Austin "a few lines of the Sanitary Preface" he has written for the "cheap Oliver," noting that he has gone to the expense of printing it in order to "sew up" with David Copperfield.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495854872 View

Muspratt, Sheridan, 1821-1871. Autograph letter signed : Chester, to Charles Dickens, [1852 Feb. 5].

Title: Autograph letter signed : Chester, to Charles Dickens, [1852 Feb. 5].

Telling him that he has sold all the tickets for the play in Liverpool; asking if Dickens can give a second performance. Dickens forwards Muspratt's letter to William Henry Wills and asks him to write to Muspratt. The letters mention [Douglas] Jerrold, [Mark] Lemon, and [John] Forster.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270612776 View

Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789-1864. Autograph letter signed : London, to William Henry Wills, [1854] Oct. 31.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to William Henry Wills, [1854] Oct. 31.

Acknowledging an honor conferred on him by the Guild of Literature and Art.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270529512 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : Higham, to William Macready, 1868 June 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Higham, to William Macready, 1868 June 10.

Mentioning that, due to Wills' "concussion of the brain," Dickens is obliged to see to all of the business details of All the Year Round, and is very busy. Referencing his trip to America and all the correspondence he must catch up on. Noting that he just traveled to Paris "to look after the French version of No Thoroughfare," which he left "a very great success." Hoping that the Macreadys will visit, and mentioning that Katie's husband [Charles Collins] is ill and not likely to recover.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489540136 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : Dover, to Wilkie Collins, 1856 Apr. 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Dover, to Wilkie Collins, 1856 Apr. 30.

Discussing Collins' career, noting that though Dickens is "not in the habit of making professions," he has "so strong an interest in [Collins] and so true a regard of [him], that nothing can come amiss in the way of information as to [Collins'] well-doing." Inquiring after Collins' health and wishing he were also at Dover. Approving of the idea Collins suggested to [William Henry] Wills [sub-editor at Household Words], and making an appointment for Saturday morning.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 16.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/464224525 View

Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868. Autograph letter signed : Pevensey, to W. H. Wills, 1865 July 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Pevensey, to W. H. Wills, 1865 July 21.

Concerning the rates of pay for contributions to his periodical.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270591142 View

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880,. Autograph letter signed from W.H. Wills, Welwyn, to C.E. Flower [manuscript], 1875 March 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed from W.H. Wills, Welwyn, to C.E. Flower [manuscript], 1875 March 22.

Wills offers some caveats concerning building of a theater at Shakespeare's birthplace.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/421044136 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1851 Dec. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1851 Dec. 23.

Noting that since Wills has "gone blind without any notice" he is obliged to be in the office [of Household Words]. Suggesting that he and Collins meet the following day for dinner and to "look at Christmas Eve in Whitechapel -- which is always a curious thing."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270529095 View

Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870. Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to "Harry" [Wills], 1851 May 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to "Harry" [Wills], 1851 May 12.

Making arrangements to take actors to the theater [probably for a performance of Not so bad as we seem]; mentioning Charles Dickens.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 19.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598151 View

Morley Letters, 1850-1868

Title: Morley Letters 1850-1868

ArchivalResource: 1 box; 0.4 cubic feet

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb181-sxms15 View

Charles Dickens collection of papers, 1833]-[1975, 1833-1909

Title: Charles Dickens collection of papers 1833]-[1975 1833-1909

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.

ArchivalResource: 1,225 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19176 View

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880,. Autograph letter signed from W.H. Wills, Welwyn, to C.E. Flower [manuscript], 1875 March 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed from W.H. Wills, Welwyn, to C.E. Flower [manuscript], 1875 March 22.

Wills offers some caveats concerning building of a theater at Shakespeare's birthplace.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/421044136 View

'Household Words' 1

Title: 'Household Words' 1 28 Mar 1850-Apr 1860

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=040-000001335&fn=search&vid=IAMS_VU2 View

William Henry Wills Papers, 1835-1900

Title: William Henry Wills Papers, 1835-1900

William Henry Wills (1810-1880) was a contributor to magazines and , served as one of the original literary staff of , and was a contributer and sub-editor of the (1846) before becoming a contributor and assistant editor of Chambers' journal, (1849), and of (1859-69). The collection consists of letters to William Henry and Janet Wills from various persons, and a few letters from various persons to relations and associates of Wills. McCulloch's geographical dictionary Punch Daily news Household words All the year round

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt929009vj View

Robert Owen Collection, 1805-1858

Title: Robert Owen Collection 1805-1858

ArchivalResource: 2991 items

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1499-roc View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to [Thomas Adolphus] Trollope, 1867 July 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to [Thomas Adolphus] Trollope, 1867 July 29.

Explaining that he is leaving a note because he has an appointment with his dentist; inviting him to a dinner for his "Readings" secretary who is going to America; mentioning others who will be at the dinner, including William Henry Wills, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Chappell.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/757401517 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to William Macready, 1866 Mar. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to William Macready, 1866 Mar. 12.

Mentioning that his health has improved and that he will be performing some readings. Discussing particulars related to his readings, noting that Wills will accompany him. Asking Katie for a second copy of her poem "Bird of Paradise."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489528467 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Minutes of a meeting of the Guild of Literature and Art : autograph manuscript draft : England, 1862 July 14.

Title: Minutes of a meeting of the Guild of Literature and Art : autograph manuscript draft : England, 1862 July 14.

Recording the minutes of the 14 July 1862 meeting of the council of the Guild of Literature and Art. Listing Charles Dickens, W.H. Wills, Robert Chambers, Charles Wordsworth and Frederic Ouvry as present. Draft with many cancellations and emendations.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 26.6 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465475010 View

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880. Office book of "Household Words" [microform], 1850-1859.

Title: Office book of "Household Words" [microform], 1850-1859.

Office book, almost entirely in the hand of W. H. Wills, assistant editor of Dickens's magazine called "Household Words," which ran from Mar. 30, 1850- May 28, 1859. Records for each issue the date, serial number, author of each contribution (the contributions are anonymous in the periodical itself), its title, length in columns, price paid, date of payment, and memorandum. Dickens is always referred to as "Mr. C. D." and the record shows that he was not paid separately for his many contributions, which were doubtless regarded as part of his editorial work.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (122 written leaves) ; 28-43 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760177018 View

Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880. Letter to [George] Dubourg. London, Eng. [18--]

Title: Letter to [George] Dubourg. London, Eng. [18--]

Concerning a delay in receipt of Dubourg's letters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/308228233 View

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880. Papers, 1835-1900.

Title: Papers, 1835-1900.

Collection consists of letters to William Henry and Janet Wills from various persons, and a few letters from various persons to relations and associates of Wills. Correspondents include Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Cruikshank, Sir Henry Irving, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40297894 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1817. Partnership agreements, 1859-1870.

Title: Partnership agreements, 1859-1870.

Articles of agreement, dated 1859 Aug. 2, of joint proporietorship of the journal All the year round, between Dickens and W.H. Wills, with the former as editor and the latter subeditor and general manager. The second contract, dated 1870 May 2, revises the first to replace the retiring Wills with Dickens's son Charles, with all three serving as joint proprietors. Accompanied by two portraits of the elder Dickens and one of Wills.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (2 items) in case ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316956 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Apr. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Apr. 15.

Proposing Friday for their meeting a the Garrick. Noting that Dickens "fell foul of [William Henry] Wills yesterday" concerning Wills' failure to give the printer a correction for Collins' story [the second installment of "Sister Rose"], and mentioning that Wills responded that "it was a more triumphant thing to have two mistakes than none."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463331448 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Charles Dickens collection of papers, [1833]-[1975] bulk ([1833]-1909).

Title: Charles Dickens collection of papers, [1833]-[1975] bulk ([1833]-1909).

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.

ArchivalResource: 1,179 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575730 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Collection of letters of Charles Dickens, Sir James Emerson Tennent and his family, and John Forster : London and other locations, 1828-1872.

Title: Collection of letters of Charles Dickens, Sir James Emerson Tennent and his family, and John Forster : London and other locations, 1828-1872.

A collection of letters including 19 letters from Charles Dickens (most to Sir James Emerson Tennent); 28 letters from John Forster (most to Sir James Emerson Tennent); and 22 letters from Sir James Emerson Tennent (most to John Forster). The collection also includes letters from William Bryden, Mamie Dickens, Charles Knight, Letitia Emerson Tennent, and William Henry Wills. Letters are described in individual records (MA 4979.1-78).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (78 letters), unbound ; size varies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/497207177 View

Wills, W. Henry (William Henry), 1810-1880. Office book of 'Household Words", 1850-1859.

Title: Office book of 'Household Words", 1850-1859.

Office book, almost entirely in the hand of W. H. Wills, assistant editor of Dickens's magazine called "Household Words," which ran from Mar. 30, 1850- May 28, 1859. Records for each issue the date, serial number, author of each contribution (the contributions are anonymous in the periodical itself), its title, length in columns, price paid, date of payment, and memorandum. Dickens is always referred to as "Mr. C. D." and the record shows that he was not paid separately for his many contributions, which were doubtless regarded as part of his editorial work.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (122 written leaves) ; 28-43 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213343152 View

Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870. Autograph letter signed : [London], to "Harry" [Wills], 1854 May 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to "Harry" [Wills], 1854 May 3.

Saying he had "not the least idea [Wills] had suffered so much"; mentioning Charles Dickens; joking that he suspects Mrs. Wills of being an angel; telling him he returned "Miller's tale" because he "thought it too homely for the Illus. News."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598154 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Wilkie Collins, 1855 Mar. 24.

Expressing pleasure at Collins' "great improvement" and that he will be traveling to Ashford, giving specifications as to the arrangements. Discussing [Dinah Mulock] and her publication, and mentioning [Sir John Everett] Millais, and referencing his painting "The Rescue." Noting that [William Henry] Wills informed Georgina [Hogarth] that his sister is "Abnormal," from which Dickens inferrs "that Abnormal is a kind of scientific substitute for Ricketty." With a postscript noting that he dined with "an old General" [Sir Charles Pasley] "who went perfectly mad at dinner about the Times."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463320119 View

Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880. Autograph letter signed : London, to Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1867 Nov. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1867 Nov. 23.

Thanking him for sending an article for All the Year Round and promising proofs; saying he has heard from Dickens, who has arrived "safe and well" in Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 13cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270958680 View

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 185[2] Jan. 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Austin, 185[2] Jan. 7.

Mentioning that Mr. Indermaur proposed to Wills that his surveyor friend [Albert Frend] should be introduced to Austin, and that Austin can expect a letter from "Friend" accordingly. Discussing Dickens' ill heath, and hoping that Austin is feeling better.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495860525 View