65167
- TitleCharles Evans and Archibald Michie - letters from Charles Dickens, 1848, 1865
- Call numberMLMSS 5826
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
19 May 1848, 19 November 1865 - Type of material
- Reference code65167
- Issue CopyMicrofilm : MLMSS 5826)
- Physical Description1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript) - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Charles Dickens [1812-1870] was born in Portsmouth, England. He began his literary career by contributing articles to popular journals. His first novel, Pickwick Papers,was published in 1837. In 1847 he became manager of a theatrical company which gave performances in the great provincial towns. Many of his novels contain references to Australia and during the 1840s he became interested in the colony as a home for working class emigrants. Two of his sons, Alfred and Edward, emigrated to Australia in the 1860s and Dickens himself planned a lecture tour there in 1862 but it did not eventuate. - Scope and Content19 May 1848; Autograph letter signed to Charles Evans written from Regent's Park, London, requesting his help in arranging for performances in Birmingham by the amateur theatrical company of which Dickens was manager, such performances to be in aid of the fund for the curatorship of Shakespeare House.
19 November 1865; Autograph letter signed to Archibald Michie, [lawyer and politician of Melbourne] written from Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, thanking him for his interest in his son Alfred and also for his invitation to visit Australia. Dickens also refers to Richard Hengist Horne, a contemporary author who spent 17 years in Australia, and gives an amusing account of his invention of a giant corkscrew to extract gold from the diggings. - General note
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