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Merry Christmas at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum

Merry Christmas at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum

Traditionally every holiday season the Morgan Library displays Charles Dickens’s only original manuscript of his novella A Christmas Carol. In drastic financial straits Dickens wrote the five “staves” or chapters of this iconic tale over six weeks at the end of 1843.

That he was in a hurry to finish is clear from the 66-page manuscript’s many revisions: detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions, and his scrawling handwriting. The book was published on December 19th and sold out by Christmas Eve. By the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released and since then the novella has never been out of print.

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