Commercial Road. Portsmouth
Postcard showing a brown brick house with lettering “Charles Dickens Birthplace February 7th 1812.”
Collection
Creation Date
1911-06
Creator(s)
J. Welch & Sons; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
Your TR Source
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Old Curiosity Shop, London
Postcard showing the outside of a shop building with “The Old Curiosity Shop, Immortalized By Charles Dickens” painted on the front. Charles C. Myers notes that this is the original shop in London, England, that appears in Dickens’s novel.
Collection
Creation Date
1910
Creator(s)
Munchmore Art Co.; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
Chop Room, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Postcard showing the dining area of an inn with tables around a fireplace and pictures hanging on the walls, including a portrait. Charles C. Myers identifies it as Ye Cheshire Cheese Restaurant in London, England, where writers Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens often visited. The portrait is of Johnson. Myers notes that he ate Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant in 1910.
Collection
Creation Date
1910
Creator(s)
Thackeray in America
Ambassador Reid delivers a speech on William Makepeace Thackeray and his special place of respect among the American people at the Titmarsh Club Dinner in London, recounting the kind recollections of men who knew Thackeray while he visited the United States. Reid acknowledges that Charles Dickens’s less flattering depictions of Americans in his own works have their merit, but restates that Thackeray’s writings on his time in America and his skill as a writer have left him as well loved by Americans as the English.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12
Creator(s)
Note on filing
The quote from Dickens should be filed under “Lodge” with a cross reference to “Dickens.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-03-02
Creator(s)
Letter from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to Katherine Williams Watson
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt responds to a request from Katherine Williams Watson, children’s librarian at the Denver Public Library, to review a list of books called “Girlhood Favorites.” Roosevelt notes that the list includes many of her favorites and the favorites of her children, especially the books of Juliana Horatia Ewing.
Collection
Creation Date
1930-10
Creator(s)
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt sends Elihu Root the answer that Senator Philander C. Knox wrote to Alton B. Parker about the common law. Roosevelt would like to see Root take this issue up in one of his New York speeches. If Roosevelt’s opponents in the election continue to keep “Odellism” as the main issue, then Roosevelt will lose.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-10-03
Creator(s)
Barkis is willin’
Print shows an Irishman man labeled “Democracy” standing at center, holding a small glass slipper labeled “’84 Presidential Nomination”, with Samuel J. Tilden and Charles A. Dana as courtiers standing behind him. On the left, sitting in a chair is Benjamin F. Butler, as a housemaid, holding up a huge foot, an oversized shoe labeled “Unanimous Renomination” is on the floor next to the chair. Butler claims to be “Cinderella” (and like Dickens’ “Barkis,” he is willing), though the others look with dismay at the size of his foot. Caption: B. Butler “Here’s your Cinderella, gentlemen – you needn’t go any further.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-10-03
Creator(s)
Letter from Frances Folsom Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt
Francis Folsom Cleveland, wife of former President Grover Cleveland, has found the enclosed note in a volume of Dickens but is unable to match it to any of their books. She wonders if the book it refers, to, an edition of Dante sent by the King of Italy, is in the White House library and hopes that President Roosevelt can solve the mystery for her.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-26