Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 8:29:48 GMT
Charles DickensThe Victoria and Albert Museum in London has begun a campaign to seek funds to conserve the original manuscripts of three novels by Charles Dickens . A total of £25,000 (over €28,000), of which over half has been found, is needed to properly preserve the original texts of A Tale of Two Cities , David Copperfield and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood . Dickens had written in iron gall ink on low-quality blue paper purchased from WH Smith. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the writer's latest, disconcerting novel.
If the manuscript is restored and preserved, visitors and Dickens scholars will be able to study the writer's notes and text edits and perhaps even come up with their own solution to one of the most compelling Special Data unsolved cases in the history of literature. The corrections made by Dickens are visible in these manuscripts. They are the pages that he would have delivered to the printers before receiving the proof in exchange for correction. Some of this proof has also been preserved, so it is possible to see the editing process carried out, as well as having the opportunity to study the author's planning, writing and proofreading. Conservators will have to remove the old bindings and mounts and clean the pages with an expensive humidifying process.
Then remount each page onto acid-free paper. The pages will then be placed in protective humidity-controlled containers. Some parts of the manuscripts are impossible to read, as the sheets were glued underneath, making the left side or reverse of the pages inaccessible. The museum is one of many British institutions hit by recent government funding cuts. His aim is to be able to show the manuscripts on the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, which will be on 7 February 2012, now too fragile and damaged. The manuscripts were taken by Dickens's literary agent and friend John Forster, who donated them to the museum in 1876. Probably if Forster had not kept them, realizing their value, those manuscripts would have ended up in the garbage or burned.
If the manuscript is restored and preserved, visitors and Dickens scholars will be able to study the writer's notes and text edits and perhaps even come up with their own solution to one of the most compelling Special Data unsolved cases in the history of literature. The corrections made by Dickens are visible in these manuscripts. They are the pages that he would have delivered to the printers before receiving the proof in exchange for correction. Some of this proof has also been preserved, so it is possible to see the editing process carried out, as well as having the opportunity to study the author's planning, writing and proofreading. Conservators will have to remove the old bindings and mounts and clean the pages with an expensive humidifying process.
Then remount each page onto acid-free paper. The pages will then be placed in protective humidity-controlled containers. Some parts of the manuscripts are impossible to read, as the sheets were glued underneath, making the left side or reverse of the pages inaccessible. The museum is one of many British institutions hit by recent government funding cuts. His aim is to be able to show the manuscripts on the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, which will be on 7 February 2012, now too fragile and damaged. The manuscripts were taken by Dickens's literary agent and friend John Forster, who donated them to the museum in 1876. Probably if Forster had not kept them, realizing their value, those manuscripts would have ended up in the garbage or burned.