into the life and work of charles dickens have been acquired by a london museum dedicated to the writer. the material includes unpublished letters, sketches, books and personal objects. experts at the dickens museum say they can't wait to share some of the treasure trove with visitors. 0ur arts correspondent brenda emmanus reports. it was at his home in bloomsbury, london, now the charles dickens museum, the seller to achieved national fame as one of the world's great storytellers. today the venue has more to celebrate than his birthday. having acquired a substantial collection of and original material. over 300 unpublished letters, personal objects, portraits and books. the museum's acquisition from a personal collection in america gives a new insight into the life and work of charles dickens. from his personal and business relationships to his state of mind while writing his novels. of these items almost all of them have been in private hands for many years. some have never been seen.

charles dickens at work and play? absolutely. this gave to a young —— is young sister—in—law.the letters, some of them have never been seen by any body outside of this collection. i can't make i can't wait to go through it. it gives us a wonderful insight into his personality. there isa insight into his personality. there is a fantastic letter to his putter before a party. it is so exacting and says exactly what the bottle should do. little minutiae of life. the items were selected from a collection amassed over four decades. it is now thejob collection amassed over four decades. it is now the job of the museum to research, catalogue and co nse rve museum to research, catalogue and conserve them. to display online and in the rooms of dickens london home. brendan a mannus, bbc london news. now the weather with lucy martin. we have had such a lovely bright, crisp days but it is about to change? it is. it is all eyes on stone cure into the weekend. yesterday i had footage from oklahoma and the snow. today i bring you footage from jacksonville in florida. torrential rain, gales, f

so charles dickens at work and play? absolutely. hogarth. it has a lock of his hair. and this one has a lock of hers. it is so important. so much of it is unpublished already. so the letters that have come in, some of them have never been seen by people outside of this collection before. i can't wait to start to go through them. i'm really excited. it gives us a wonderful insight into dickens' personality. there is a fantastic letter to his butler before a party. it is so exacting and says exactly what the butler should do. just these little minutiae of life. the items were selected from a collection amassed over four decades. it's now the job of the museum to research, catalogue and conserve them, to display online and in the rooms of dickens' london home. brenda emmanus, bbc news. coming up at 5:45pm, as usual, it's the film review — and also to remind you, this weekend the red carpet is rolled out in hollywood for the 92nd oscars ceremony. thejoker leads the pack with 11 nominations, but will it come up trumps? will 1917 do will1

let me know what your favourite charles dickens book is.yam hello there, all week we have been talking about stormy weather this weekend so let‘s take a look at how this weekend is shaping up. saturday will bring a good deal of dry weather for many and some sunny spells around first thing but we will see happy and persistent rain, gail‘s and the rain and strong winds will become widespread over night into sunday. * ciara moves and and jails across the uk, heavy and persistent rain and potential for a big waves in coastal areas. let‘s look at the pressure chart and what we can expect for the weekend, the initial ban of rain going through and stormed ciara arriving in the early hours of sunday. first of all three tonight, the comment today is replaced by cloudier skies and outbreaks of rain. the rain heavy and persistent and breezy in the north and west. temperature is not as cold as they have been of late. tomorrow starts with a dead deal of sunshine with sunny spells around first thing and the exception to that down in the southeast where t

we see these and it isa important when we see these and it is a complete correspondent between charles dickensespondence to do the same so there are often missing parts from his correspondence so this is wonderful to see the whole process. 0ut wonderful to see the whole process. out of interest, why did he do that? dickens had become incredibly famous by this point and had separated very publicly and callously from his wife and he didn't want people knowing a huge amount about his life. —— publicly and scanned the sleeve. it is like people getting rid of things on their social media. there were so much about his life, his works, perhaps he didn't want people knowing about that and as you say, the connection does tell us a lot. it tells does it tell us a lot about the things he may not have wanted us to know about? it might do because people who he wrote to asking to destroy the letters might have thought i won't destroy them because they're from charles dickens but there is a particularly wonderful letter where he writes about his time in switzerland because he lived there for several months w

charles dickens at work and play? absolutely. this gave to his young sister—in—law.an't make i can't wait to go through it. it gives us a wonderful insight into his personality. there is a fantastic letter to his putter before a party. it is so exacting and says exactly what the bottle should do. little minutiae of life. the items were selected from a collection amassed over four decades. it is now the job of the museum to research, catalogue and conserve them. to display online and in the rooms of dickens london home. brendan a mannus, bbc london news. now it's time for a look at the weather. pretty smooth and still out there at the moment. pretty quiet on the weather fronts are nothing compared to what is heading our way in 24, to 24 hours. if you are out this evening don't expect any massive changes to the weather and across eastern parts, it will be calm in the west we shower coming through, moving into parts of scotland on a strengthening south—westerly wind and the same goes for northern ireland. through the day we will see about a bout of careful swings and ve

little person of 4 feet tall, black man who weighed about 50 pounds as the missing link between charles dickens book had just comek out on the origin of species, this was in 1860, started exhibiting this man, johnson and he put him in a pursuit, it was awful but one of the things that was interesting was when he was exhibited there would be an white man telling the story, he had been found in africa and in the background, this manin put be mocking the white o guy and kind of saying redon't really believe this. this is really what's going on. barnum clearly permitted it or probably encouraged it, barnum ended up building a house for this man in bridgeport, they were friends for the remainder of barnum's life, he went on to be exhibited, to be seen by 100 billion people into the 19 -- around 1920. and anyway, that's another one that is sort of hard to sort of think about. i'll leave you with one quick image, clayton barnum's life, he got involved in about late teen 70s -- 1880s, he and james bailey who was the genius behind the circus, took the circus to england and they exhibited, it was showed

little had changed since 1849 when the visiting charles dickens sarcastically described the nondescript dwelling as wide streets that peter daut in empty fields is a city of magnificent instances. nothing more aptly epitomize the unfinished city and the capital itself surrounded by the marble block strewn around the building like a symbolic fragment of the nations peace. washingtonians felt a sense of doom. the city jefferson davis since wife marina and her husband's last days in the senate was like some kind of mausoleum was no one visiting, no dinners for parties just a sullen gloom and pending over all things. on january 27 ohio representative clements landing ham wrote to his wife i am able to do no good here. no man can so we said end of obliged to sit condemned as one who watches over the couch of a loved mother slowly dying with consumption to see my country parish. americans who had taken their nation's immortality for granted new that things would never be the same again. the empty seats in the house of the senate spoke of a revolution in terms more graphic than any of the stor

this takes us back to charles dickens and debtors prison. 400 thousand people today in jail behind barsot having been convicted of anything. our administration will and cash ale in america. [applause] bail in america. the other issue, long overdue, we have to deal with. and i'm proud of the progress we've made it four years ago i've talked about it. a lot has happened since. right now, we need to and the so-called war on drugs. what does that mean? [applause] it means that on day one, as president, i will take marijuana out of the federal controlled substance act. this effectively legalizes marijuana in every state in this country. [cheers and applause] right now, under the controlled substance act, marijuana is at the same level as heroin. we can argue about the pluses and minuses of marijuana. but very few people think that marijuana is equivalent to a killer drug, like heroin. what we also do is expunge the records of those arrested for possession of marijuana. [applause] i will tell you what else we are going to do and this is not an idea that came to me. it came from friends in the

as the missing link between charles dickens book it just come out on the origin of species in 1959. this was 1960. he started exhibiting this man. this man johnson. putting in a pursuit. it was just awful. one of the things that was interesting was when he was exhibited there, the white man was upfront telling his story telling him how vaping found in africa or something. in the background, this man would sort of be mocking the white guy. and kind of saying that don't really believe this. this is not really what's going on. it was sort of messed up in some way i guess. and barnum clearly was probably encouraging that he ended up building a house for this man in bridgeport. they were friends for the remainder of barnum's life. he went on to be exhibited in a be seen by a hundred million people. and into the around 1920. this another one that is sort of hard to sort of think about. i just leave you with one quick image though. late in barnum's life, he got involved with the circus in the late 1870s. in the late 1880s, ambani, james bailey was the genius behind the circus, took the cir