Re: The best of 'Times'
Sue Harris (sharris@CSC.SCTBOCES.ORG)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:49:26 -0500
Must have been an awfully big watch!
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Charles Dickens wrote:
> Mr Charles Dickens has asked me to reply to this query.
>
> The last news Dickensians heard of this watch was in 1951. Dickens
> bequeathed it to his friend and biographer John Forster, who in turn
> bequeathed it to Thomas Carlyle. In 1951 it was in the possession of his
> descendant, Mrs Elizabeth Carlyle of Dumfries, who that year lent it to the
> city of Coventry for exhibition there.
>
> I should think descendants of Carlyle today would know of its whereabouts.
> I suggest you search the web, using the name "Thomas Carlyle." That would
> probably yield news of a project likely to involve contact with Carlyle
> descendants.
>
>
> Dr David Parker, Curator, The Dickens House Museum, London
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
> >Whilst visiting Coventry in 1858, Charles Dickens was presented with a
> >Quarter Repeating Gold Watch No 8581 made by Rotheram and Sons of Coventry.
> >
> >It is inscribed:
> >
> > "Presented to Charles Dickens Esquire by his friends in Coventry in
> >grateful acknowledgement of his kindness to them and of his eminent
> >services to the interests of Humanity. December 1858"
> >
> >Coventry Watch Museum Project (registered charity) has asked me if I can
> >find out what became of it.
> >
> >Can anyone help?
> >
> >
>
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> Charles Dickens
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