'The London Tavern: Past and Present' and 'A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern'

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/3
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: 'The London Tavern: Past and Present' and 'A Tradition of the King's Head Tavern'
Date(s)	: 1851-1852
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Dickens | Charles John Huffam | 1812-1870 | novelist and journalist Various

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Collected by C.W.F.Goss as part of the Institute's London Collection.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
15 August 2005