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THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE PERSONAL STORY BEHIND THE CREATION AND PUBLIC RECEPTION OF CHARLES DICKENS’S BELOVED A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Beginning November 3, the Morgan Library & Museum explores the genesis, composition, publication, and contemporary reception of this beloved classic in a new exhibition entitled Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas.

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Fame's tribute to children : being a collection of autograph sentiments contributed by famous men and women for this volume / done in fac-simile and published for the benefit of the Children's Home, of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Chicago [Hayes] 1893.

PML 87384

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Printed Books

A grammar of the English language in a series of letters : intended for the use of schools and of young persons in general, but especially for the use of soldiers, sailors, apprentices, and plough-boys / by William Cobbett.

Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.

London : Printed for the Author and sold by Thomas Dolby, 1819.

PML 84710

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Book

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Printed Books

Receipt for 200 livres from the Département des Batimens du Roi for his painting "Licteurs rapportant B̀rutus les corps de ses fils" now in the Louvre : printed document filled out and signed : Paris, 1790 Feb. 3.

David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825.

1790 Feb. 3.

MA 3840 (039)

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Two right profitable and fruitful concordances, or large and ample tables alphabeticall ... and will serve as well for the translation called Geneva, as for the other authorized to be read in churches / collected by R.F.H.

Herrey, Robert F.

London : Robert Barker, 1615.

PML 18407.2

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Book

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Printed Books

Alice in Wonderland : a musical dream play for children, in two acts, for children and others, founded on Mr. Lewis Carroll's stories / by H. Savile Clarke ; music by Walter Slaughter ; produced under the direction of Horace Sedger.

Clarke, H. Savile (Henry Savile), 1841-1893.

Covent Garden [London] : G. Harmsworth & Co., Printers, 1898.

PML 352285

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Book

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Printed Books

Alice in Wonderland : a musical dream play for children, in two acts, for children and others, founded on Mr. Lewis Carroll's stories / by H. Savile Clarke ; music by Walter Slaughter ; produced under the direction of Horace Sedger.

Clarke, H. Savile (Henry Savile), 1841-1893.

Covent Garden [London] : G. Harmsworth & Co., Printers, 1898.

PML 352286

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Printed Books

[De oratore].

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

PML 15419

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books

Presens Clementis quinti [con]situtio[n]u[m] opus clarissimu[m].

Clement V, Pope, approximately 1260-1314.

PML 21216

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books

THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM SHOWCASES DRAWINGS BY REDISCOVERED BEAT-ERA ARTIST RICK BARTON

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Friday, April 29, 2022

The Morgan Library & Museum presents Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton, opening June 10 and running through September 11, 2022.

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