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Scope	literary MSS and proofs
Repository	National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
Record Reference	Forster Collection
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 38887 Forster
Scope	1833-70: corresp (1129 items), papers and literary MSS
Repository	Huntington Library
Other reference	see Guide to Literary MSS 1979
Scope	1832-70: corresp, literary MSS and papers
Repository	The Morgan Library
Other reference	see NUC MS 84-2146
Scope	1835-70: papers incl letters and literary MSS (c800 items)
Repository	Free Library of Philadelphia
Other reference	see NUC MS 60-1085
Scope	1836-70: letters, literary MSS etc
Repository	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Record Reference	Eng MSS 725-26
Scope	1839-70: letters (71) and literary MSS (2)
Repository	Harvard University: Houghton Library
Other reference	see Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
Scope	letters and literary MSS
Repository	Princeton University Library
Other reference	see Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
Scope	misc corresp and papers (47 items)
Repository	Boston Public Library
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 11046 Boston Library
Scope	MS of "Nicholas Nickleby" (22pp fragment)
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MS 57493
Scope	MS of Great Expectations
Repository	Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	MS of 'To be read at dusk'
Repository	Royal Archives
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	MSS of him and his circle, collections rel to him
Repository	Dickens House Museum and Library
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	publishing agreements, legal and financial papers (c10 vols)
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Dep 9964
Other reference	see Annual return 2000
Scope	manuscripts
Repository	Keats House
Other reference	see ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
Scope	misc papers rel to him
Repository	Northamptonshire Record Office
Record Reference	2437
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 25867 Watson
Scope	1835-67: letters to his wife Catherine
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MS 43689
Scope	1836-58: corresp, mainly with Richard Bentley
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MSS 46612-649
Scope	1841-57: letters (10) to Lord Brougham
Repository	London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
Record Reference	BROUGHAM link to online catalogue
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1844-66: letters to Thomas Carlyle
Repository	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	MSS.665-666
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1848-67: letters (24), mainly to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke
Repository	Leeds University, Brotherton Collection
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 10657 Novello-Clarke
Scope	1839-66: letters (609) to Baroness Burdette Coutts
Repository	The Morgan Library
Other reference	see NUC MS 84-2146
Scope	1863-70: corresp with Mrs Eliza Davis
Repository	London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
Record Reference	Mocatta Strong Room MSS
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1851-56: letters (16), mostly to the 6th Duke of Devonshire
Repository	Chatsworth House
Record Reference	2nd Series nos.342.1-342.16
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1845-69: letters (12) to Joseph Ellis
Repository	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts
Record Reference	MS.Eng.lett.d.275 ff.93-120
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1837-39: letters (44) mainly to John Forster
Repository	National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
Record Reference	Forster Collection
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 38887 Forster
Scope	1842-69: letters (13) to WP Frith
Repository	National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum
Record Reference	86.CC.33
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1850-62: letters (30) to William and Elizabeth Gaskell
Repository	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Record Reference	Eng MS 729
Scope	corresp with Sidney and Elizabeth Herbert
Repository	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Record Reference	2057 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 22080 Herbert
Scope	1842-45: corresp with Lord Holland
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MS 51641
Scope	1848-62: letters (12) to Richard Henry Horne
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	RP797(1)
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1840-70: letters to Lord Houghton
Repository	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
Record Reference	Houghton 7:79-106
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1835-37: letters (15) to John Pyke Hullah
Repository	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
Other reference	see information from website (1997 accessions)
Scope	1851-69: letters (34) to Sir AH Layard
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add.MS.38947
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1840-70: corresp with Lord and Lady Lytton (125 items)
Repository	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Record Reference	D/EK
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 4598
Scope	1849-66: letters and cards, mostly to Mr and Mrs Milner Gibson
Repository	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
Record Reference	Cullum M119
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1841-45: letters to Macvey Napier
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MSS 34622-625
Scope	letters from BW and AB Proctor; misc papers
Repository	Blackburn Central Library
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 1145 Blackburn L coll
Scope	1841-68: (copies) letters (14) to HP Smith and WB Hodge
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	RP 398
Scope	1838-62: letters, as sponsor, to the Royal Literary Fund
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Loan no.96
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1834-70: letters (171)
Repository	Leeds University, Brotherton Collection
Other reference	see Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
Scope	1836-70: letters (138) to various correspondents
Repository	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 33549 Dickens
Scope	1842-69: letters (43) (copies)
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	RP2554(i)
Scope	1837-1897: papers incl publishing and personal
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add. 88903
Other reference	see Annual Return 2009

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