MEMORIAL ROOM DISPLAYS DICKENS' "PICKWICK PAPERS"

A copy of the first edition of Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" is on display this week in the Widener Memorial room.

The copy of "Pickwick Papers," written in parts, includes the original drawings sketched for it. It is commonly and erroneously thought that these drawings were made by Cruickshank. The sketches for the first four numbers of the papers were in fact drawn by Seymour. At this stage he committed suicide, and was succeeded by Buss, who illustrated number five. His plates proved unsatisfactory to Dickens and he was succeeded by Phiz (Hablot K. Brown). He remade the plates for number five and drew sketches for the remaining ones.

In addition to the Dickens works, there are on display, a number of presentation copies of Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling and President Lowell.