Letters of the Dickens family [manuscript]. 1870-1913.

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Letters of the Dickens family [manuscript]. 1870-1913.

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The letters relate to the Dickens family. There are three letters from Charles's estranged wife Catherine Dickens, two to Alfred, another to his wife Jessie. There is a letter from the family solicitor to Alfred, describing the settlement of his father's estate. Another letter to Alfred's daughters, Kathleen and Violet, is written by Dicken's sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. Includes a typescript of a letter written by Charles Dickens to his youngest son, Plorn, (Edward) on his departure to join Alfred in Australia. There is a printed newspaper extract of the death of Jessie Dickens, with an accompanying silk printed funeral notice.

7 items in security binder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7039998

Libraries Australia

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Dickens, Alfred d'Orsay Tennyson, 1845-1912.

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Epithet: son of Charles Dickens, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000011 Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, migrated to Australia in 1865. Another son, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens came to Australia in 1869. Alfred bought a partnership in a stock and station agency in Hamilton, Victoria, but four years after his wife Jessie was killed in a carriage accident in December 1878, he le...

Dickens family.

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Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1852-1902

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Youngest son of Charles Dickens. Member of N.S.W. Legislative Assembly, representing Wilcannia, Feb. 1889-June 1894. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225764737 Epithet: son of Charles Dickens, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000014 ...

Dickens, Catherine, 1815-1879

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Wife of Charles Dickens. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Frederic Chapman, 1864 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529399 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to her sister-in-law, Frances [Fanny] Burnett, 1842 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529395 ...