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Minor works

Listed here you will find the minor works of Charles Dickens as held in the Fitzgerald Collection at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre.  These include plays and speeches. The works are listed by title in alphabetical order. 

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Bentley's Miscellany:

 Articles etc:

  • item 10 notice of death of his sister in law (June 1837)
  • item 10 Extraordinary Gazette
  • item 10 Editorial Notices to Readers and would be Contributors
  • item 10 and item 15 Editor's Address (January 1837)
  • item  10 and item 15 Public Life of Mr Tulrumble
  • item 10 and item 15 Pantomime of Life (March 1837)
  • item 10 and item 15 Some Particulars concerning a Lion
  • item 12 Proclamation re Nicholas Nickleby
  • item 13 and item 15 Mudfog meetings
  • item 15 Editorial Forward
  • item 15 Address 30 Nov 1837
  • item 15 Preface to vol III
  • item 15 Acknowledges his nom de plume
  • item 15 Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child by Boz

Other minor works:

  • item 161 Mudfog Papers (Bentley and Son 1880)
  • item 424 No Thoroughfare (Portuguese) (in collaboration with Wilkie Collins)
  • item 112 No Thoroughfare (USA New York Robert de Witt)
  • item 17 Boots at the Holly Bush (title page only)
  • item 216 (d) Curious misprint in the Edinburgh Review
  • item 422 Dr Marigold (Portuguese edition , Lisbon 1914)
  • item 217(s,u,t) George Silverman's explanation (1868)
  • item 215 The Haunted Man
  • item 366 The Holly Tree (published by E. Nister. Illustrated by A.A. Dixon)
  • item 205 and 218 (cc,a) Holiday Romance
  • item 36 Hunted Down
  • item 167 In Memoriam (Cornhill Magazine, February 1864)
  • item 53 Letter to Thomas Hood
  • item 115 Memoir of Joseph Grimaldi (edited by Boz. Illustrated by G Cruikshank. Published by Richard Bentley, 1838. Vol 1 only)
  • item 178 Miscellaneous Papers (Centenary Edition. Chapman and Hall 1911. Vol II only)
  • item 215 Mr Barlow (Every Saturday, 6 February 1869)
  • item 17 Mrs Gamp (Chapman and Hall 1869) Title page only
  • item 216 (z) Mrs Lirriper's Legacy
  • item 215 Mugby Junction
  • item 17 Nicholas Nickleby : a fragment
  • item 390 (z) O'thello facsimile of Dickens' first effort.

Pickwick Papers

  • item 133 The Bagman's Story (York Library. Edited by R Brimley Johnson)
  • item 268 (k) Collected from The Papers of the Pickwick Club. Ch I-IV only
    Sam Weller
    Joe the Fat Boy
    Stiggins the Shepherd
  • item 34 Pickwick Revived by Charles Dickens (1840) from Master Humphrey's Clock
  • item 268 (n) Poor Traveller (title page only)

 

Readings

  • item 268 (n) Charles Dickens's Dramatic Readings as read in America: condensed by Charles Dickens (Lee and Shepard, Boston 1879)
  • item 270 (c) A fragment of 9 pages of Nicholas Nickleby pp.19 to 26
  • item 167  Some Strange Young Gentlemen
  • item 307 The Theatrical Young Gentleman

Speeches

  • item 324 (zg) At Birmingham.
  • item 330 (a) On Administrative Reform 27 June 1855. Pamphlet
  • item 335 (a) Report of the Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution: Speeches of the late Charles Dickens. 1849, 1852, 1863, 1865 and 1870. Reprints from Press pamphlet.
  • item 324 (ee) Sunday under three Heads by Timothy Sparks. A scarce little booklet.
  • item 307 The Theatrical Young Gentleman
  • item 215 Thomas G Wainwright, the Poisoner
  • item 348 (ii) To be read at Dusk and other Stories

Dramatic Works

  • item 64 The Strange Gentleman (Chapman and Hall 1837) A comic burletta by Boz.
  • item 331 (z) Quest for Rare Books (article on item 64)
  • item 268 (d) Dick's Edition, No 466
  • item 269 (h) Is She his Wife? Dick's Standard plays, No 470
  • item 269 (i) The Lamplighter
  • item 194 Village Coquettes (Bentley's 1836) Music by John Hullah
  • item 331 (k) Dickens in the Auction Room (article on item 194)
  • item 269 (v) Dick's Edition, No 467
  • item 378 Songs with Music for the Comic Opera
    Autumn Leaves
    How Beautiful at Eventide
    My Fair Home
    There's a Charm in Spring
    A Country Life
    The Cares of the Day
    The Child and the old Man sat alone
    The Ivy Green
    In rich and lofty Station

For more information contact Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre by telephone: 01634 332714 or by email: malsc@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

 

 

 

 

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