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Letters (99) : [n.p.], addressed to Edward Wagenknecht from various Dickens scholars, 1929-1985.

BIB_ID
191591
Accession number
MA 4851 (1-99)
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1929-1985.
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
99 items.
Notes
Includes: Leone S. Bagley, typed letter signed, Boston, 6 March 1950 (item 1);William J. Carlton, typed letter signed, Andover, 12 December 1964, and statement (items 2-3); Philip Collins, typed letter signed, Leicester, 11 December 1964, and statement (items 4-5); Walter Dexter, autograph letters signed and typed letters signed (3), London, 1929 and 1941 (items 6-8); Sir Henry Charles Dickens (grandson of Dickens), autograph letter signed, Kensington, [n.d.] (item 9); C. G. L. Du Cann (Charles Garfield Lott), b. 1889, autograph letters signed and typed letters signed (4), London, 1957-1965, and statement (items 10-14); Kenneth J. Fielding, autograph letters signed and typed letters signed (4), New York, Prescot, Lancaster, and Liverpool,1962-1965, and statement (items 15-19); John Greaves, typed letter signed, London, 30 June 1962, and statement (items 20-21); Gerald G. Grubb, d.1957, typed letters signed (28), Wake Forest and Winston-Salem, North Carolina,1950-1956 (items 22-50); Rosalind Vallance Hampden, typed letters signed (2),Hastings Old Town, Sussex, 3 November and 17 December 1964 (items 51-52); T. W. Hill, typed letters signed (7), Bromley, Kent, 1950-1952, and statement (items 53-64); Thea Holme, b. 1907, autograph letter signed, London, 25 February 1965, and statement (items 65-66); Madeline House, typed letters signed (2), Cambridge, 5 November and 12 December 1964 (one to Leslie Staples) (items 67-68); William Kent, typed letter signed, London, 13 June 1950, with a copy of Wagenknecht's reply (items 69-70); Lady Pansy Lamb(Pansy Pakenham), autograph letters signed (3), Coombe Bissett, Salisbury, and London,1950-1964, and statement (items 71-74); J. W. T. Ley (James William Thomas), 1879-1943, typed letters signed (13), Newport, Monmouthshire, 1929-1943 (these letters are also described separately in more detail, see MA4890); Katharine M. Longley, typed letters signed (3), Holme on Spalding Moor, York, and Sutton Park, Hull, 1974 and 1985, with an offprint from The Dickensian, Spring 1985, "The Real Ellen Ternan" (items 75-77); Malcolm Morley, b. 1931, typed letters signed (2), London, 4 November and 14 December 1964 (items 78-79); Leslie Staples, autograph letters signed and typed letters signed (20), London, 1950-1965 (items 80-99). Total 99 items, excluding the Ley letters.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Concerning the relationship between Dickens and Ellen Ternan, and statements written in response to Wagenknecht's related book, Dickens and the Scandalmongers.