One of the Dickens Fellowship's first projects, mooted in 1905, was the establishment of a National Dickens Library. The Dickens library of the late F.G. Kitton was to be bought as its nucleus, and it was proposed to house it in the Corporation of London's Guildhall Library. The project was achieved in 1908. When in 1925 the Fellowship purchased 48 Doughty Street as a Dickens Museum, the City Corporation (with the approval of the Charity Commissioners) kindly gave back the Library, which was accommodated in this house.