Collection of rare items associated with the 19th century author Charles Dickens is to be presented at the Museum at London which is dedicated to his life and work.

The new exhibition is being organized to mark 100 years since Dickens’ first family home in Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, was saved from demolition and became the Charles Dickens Museum.

In the report “The Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museumm’, which will open in February and run until the end of June 2025, will feature for the first time a chalk and pastel sketch created by Dickens while he lived there.

The English novelist wrote the stories that made him internationally famous – The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby – while living in the house on Doughty Street.

Among the objects is a copy of the work David Copperfield brought to Antarctica by the master’s Terra Nova expedition Scott in 1910-12, according to the BBC.

Trapped in an ice cave the crew read a chapter every night for sixty nights and the book bears black fingerprints of its members probably created by the fire, in which they burned seal blubber for warmth.

Also on display will be the works of Dickens’ favorite illustrators, including Fred Barnard, John Leach and George Goodwin Kilburnas well as the first designs for its first edition A Christmas Carol.

OR Cindy Surudirector of the Museum, said the exhibition will include personal items, portraits, photographs and historical relics that will illuminate the life and works of Charles Dickens.

The author lived in the house in Bloomsbury with his wife and son from 1837 to 1839 and it is the only surviving one in London in which he lived.