• Title
  Charles Dickens original manuscript `Emigration', being an article on New South Wales as a desirable colony for emigrants, and giving advice to intending settlers, based on information supplied by Samuel Sidney, Australian writer, ca 1852, bound together with typed transcription
• Creator
  Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
• Call number
  SAFE/C 824
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1852
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  877005
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 760, frames 227-243
  
• Collection history
  The manuscript was listed for sale in the Chas. J. Sawyer (Booksellers) Catalogue, 1947, No. 184, Item 151 and sold to a private buyer.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D14914/a5565.pdf
• Variant title
  
  Other title information: Also concerning the chartering of an Emigrant ship
• General note
  
  Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London in green morocco tooled in gold.
  
  Another copy of the typescript, with speech of the Honourable H. C. H Bathurst when presenting the Manuscript in 1948 and correspondence from Chas. J. Sawyer (Booksellers) is located at Ad 7.
  
  Reference:
  Catalogue of manuscripts of Australasia and the Pacific in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Sydney : The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1967, Series A, 6-179A
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971096
• Date note
  
  This undated autograph manuscript was evidently sent by Charles Dickens to Miss Coutts. It appears the proposed date of 1852 is incorrect and its most likely to have been written soon after 4 Feb. 1850.
• Name
  Sidney, Samuel, 1813-1883.
  Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina.
  
• Subject
  New South Wales--Emigration and immigration--19th century.
  Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--19th century.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Reserve Bank: 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Currency Note Museum (16 December, 2009 - 30 March, 2010)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE565855

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