Items in special exhibition displayed for first time include copy of David Copperfield taken by Scott to Antarctica
A seal blubber-stained copy of David Copperfield which survived Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 expedition to Antarctica and a draft of Charles Dickens’s public letter announcing his separation from his wife will form part of an exhibition marking the centenary of the opening of the writer’s former London house as a museum.
The stained copy of David Copperfield was taken to Antarctica on the Terra Nova. Stranded in an ice cave, the crew read a chapter every night for 60 nights; the book was left blackened by fingerprints, likely due to the seal-blubber fire. “Basically in 1858, Charles Dickens separated from his wife, Catherine. He did this in a very public way by publishing it in his journal, Household Words, telling the world about his separation,” said Harper.
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