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Dickensian societies, celebrations, conferences etc.

Listed here you will find items from Dickensian societies, celebrations and conferences as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre. 

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  • item 341A (j) January 12 1866. Pickwick Club, Dorchester, Boston, USA. Poem recited by Francis. P. Denny
  • item 390 (w) 1892 Bolton. The President's Address. 'The Boltonian' 1892, Vol VI
  • item 291 1895-96 Boston, USA. Bye-laws of the All Around Dickens Club
  • item 291 May 1897. Boston, USA. Presidential Address
  • item 318 (b) July 26-28 1898 Broadstairs. Programme of the Charles Dickens Fete
  • item 293 March 27 1900 London. Proposed Institution of the Boz Club. Circular of date mentioned
  • item 17 June 7 1901. Rochester. Letter to Fitzgerald as to dinner at 'The Bull'
  • item 349 (dd) October 4 1902 London. The Dickens Fellowship Established. Household Words
  • item 335 (d) October 7 1902 London. Inauguration of the Dickens Fellowship. 6 October 1902
  •  item 349 (e, m) 1902 London. Rules of the Dickens Society founded 1902. St James' Gazette. 7 October 
  • item 349 (ee) 1902 London. Certificate of membership of the Fellowship: Fitzgerald's. Dated 1 November, 1902
  • item 390 (b) 1902 London. Dickens' Fellowship Publications. No. 2, 'Dickens and his Illustrators.
  • item 298 (j, k) London. Dickens' Fellowship Publications. No.1, 'Charles Dickens' by B.W. Matz
  • item 296 (c) 1903 London. Second annual banquet of the fellowship
  • items 193 and 411 1903 Bath. Celebrations
  • item 339 (s) February 7 1903. Bath Celebrations. 'The Dickens' celebrations in Bath. Bath Chronicle, 12 February 1903
  • item 341A (v) 'Dickens at the Memorial Hall'
  • items 172 and 349 (k) March 1903. The Dickens' Exhibition at The Memorial Hall
  • items 172 and 412 Dickens' Exhibition at The Memorial Hall. Catalogue compiled by F.G. Kitton
  • item 293 (d) The Dickens' Exhibition at The Memorial Hall. Daily News Report. 26 March, 1903
  • item 388 (zq) February 8 1905. Fellowship conference in Manchester
  • item 297 (o) Manchester branch birthday celebrations
  • item 294 September 2 1905. Conference of Dickens' Fellowship branch secretaries (invitation card)
  • item 259 (l) November 8 1905 Invitation to visit Boulogne from Mayor
  • items 291, 292 (d) and 355 July 22 to August 28 1907. 'The Pickwick Exhibition at The New Dudley Gallery'
  • item 297 (j) June 1908 Visit of the parent society to Broadstairs. Broadstairs and St. Peter's Echo. 20 June 1908
  • item 296 (n) October 3 1908 Sheffield branch conference
  • item 171 September 1909 Dickens' Exhibition. New Dudley Galleries. Introduction by P. Fitzgerald.

Some branch reports

  • item 293 (c)  Various reports
  • item 17 Bristol Fellowship Circular letter, signed by J.W.T. Ley, Hon. Secretary, as to establishment of Society
  • item 296 (q) Bristol Fellowship. Bristol and Clifton Dickens' Society Pilgrimage to Bath. 'Disciples of Dickens'
  • item 369 Fitzgerald, Percy. 'Boz and Bath': a Pickwickian Guide. Bath Chronicle, 1904
  • item 294 Fitzgerald, Percy. Unveiling of the bust at Chalk. Card of invitation. 14 June
  • item 273 Charles Dickens Bazaar. Holborn Town Hall. For restoration of St Peter's Church, Saffron Hill. June 27, 28, 29...

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