A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy]
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Title
A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy]
Names
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Author)
Leech, John, 1817-1864 (Illustrator)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1849 - 1859 (Questionable)
Table Of Contents
Stave I. Marley's ghost -- Stave II. The first of the three spririts -- Stave III. The second of the three spirits -- Stave IV. The last of the spirits -- Stave V. The end of it
Library Location
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: [uncataloged]
Subjects
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas carol
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Notes
Ownership: Charles Dickens (bookplate on front pastedown)
Date: Content publication: London : Bradbury and Evans, 1843 (Twelfth edition). 5th blank page includes dates of 1859 provincial reading tour.
Content: Includes four illustrations by John Leech on numbered pages 37, 73, 119, and 164
Physical Description
Extent: [14], 166, [9] pages : 4 illustrations
Includes annotations by Dickens
Abstract
The only prompt copy Dickens used during his sixteen years of publicly reading A Christmas Carol.
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Other local Identifier: [uncataloged]
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e1951b10-d507-0136-fa03-60f81dd2b63c
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1849 - 1859. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e1951b10-d507-0136-fa03-60f81dd2b63c
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1849 - 1859). A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e1951b10-d507-0136-fa03-60f81dd2b63c
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 10, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e1951b10-d507-0136-fa03-60f81dd2b63c
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