Dickens, Charles
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1812 - 1870
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Cowie Reid collection of Charles Dickens material.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-114
Scope and Contents
A collection of material relating to Charles Dickens. The collection includes a first day cover, 3 June 1970, of British stamps commemorating the death of Dickens, a letter from Dickens to F.A. Fair, 5 September 1851, and 'Master Humphrey's Clock', by "Boz", issue no.12, 20 June 1840.
Dates:
1840-1851 ; 1970
John Cowie Reid papers.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-89/14
Abstract
The papers are unique as being the only papers of a university teacher of English that have survived more or less intact and are in a public institution. The largest series consists of Reid's handwritten lecture notes on English literature from Chaucer to the 1960s, delivered mainly to university classes, but also on a variety of extra-mural occasions at summer schools and the like. His literary efforts occupy two series that consist of research notes and manuscripts of 10 of the...
Dates:
1910 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1972