- Brief description
- Manuscript leaf of Pickwick Papers, Numbered 81, Chapter XXXVI, c.1836
- Label
- This piece of paper is part of the manuscript for The Pickwick Papers, Dickens's first ever novel, written around 1836 when he was 24 years old. It contains a small part of chapter 37 where several characters enter a greengrocer's and insult him. The manuscript is written in a black ink called iron gall, made from iron sulfate. Dickens wrote most of his early work in black ink but later changed to blue.
- Collection
- Object
- Object number
- DH499
- Object type
- manuscript
- Production person
- Dickens, Charles
- Production date
- 1836-1837
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