IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/3
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: 'The London Tavern: Past and Present' and 'A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern'
Date(s): 1851-1852
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Dickens | Charles John Huffam | 1812-1870 | novelist and journalist
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CONTEXT
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No further information at present.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Includes a handwritten draft of an article, A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern in the Poultry by unknown author, possibly 'Thomson' (27pp) (n.d.); three printed proofs of the article with annotations (March 1852); two handwritten drafts of the article, The London Tavern: Past and Present (17pp and 34pp) (October 1851); two printed proofs of the article, The London Tavern: Past and Present, annotated (2 copies) (1852); edition of Household Words featuring the article, The London Tavern: Past and Present (14pp) (18 October 1851); letter from Charles Dickens regarding the article A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern in the Poultry (2pp) (n.d.)
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
No further arrangement required.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Documents cannot be photocopied at present. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Collected by C.W.F.Goss as part of the Institute's London Collection.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.
Date(s) of descriptions: 15 August 2005