The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., has a collection of 28 personal items of Charles Dickens (money purses, cigar case, punch ladle, etc.). These can be viewed at the library after obtaining a Reader’s card.  Then one goes thru the same procedures used for calling up any materials from the collections (i.e. getting a call number, filling out call slips, etc.).  Visit the library’s web site at www.newberry.org to learn details of obtaining a Reader’s card.
For group visits, please contact Jill Gage, Reference librarian; email address: Gagej@newberry.org.

DePaul University has a varied Charles Dickens collection in their Collections Department.  To view any of these items, please contact the Special Collections Department of DePaul University Library, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, telephone: 773-325-2167.  They have an information page at www.lib.depaul.edu/speccoll/info.htm.  They are open Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will arrange a date and a time for the viewing.  Please bring an audio tape player with personal earphones to hear the taped programs.  Items in the collection  include our fellowship’s Charter, the Bradford collection of books and artifacts, a complete collection of the Dickensian magazine (from its first edition to the present one), a complete set of an American non-copyrighted works of Dickens, a commemorative plate from the Mermaid Hotel in Lebanon, IL, a CD of John Barrymore’s reading of A Christmas Carol, audio tape recordings of programs given by fellowship members, as listed below: