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DICKENS’S ORIGINAL A CHRISTMAS CAROL ON VIEW BEGINNING NOVEMBER 20 AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Beginning on November 20, visitors to The Morgan Library & Museum can view the original manuscript by Dickens in a special presentation in the museum's famed McKim Building.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO HOLD MAJOR EXHIBITION THIS FALL CELEBRATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DICKENS

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was Britain's first true literary superstar. In his time, he attracted international adulation on an unprecedented scale, and many of his books became instant classics.

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Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work; with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists; the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress.

Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788.

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1790.

PML 86915

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Printed Books

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A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God : to be used in all churches and chapels throughout England, the Dominion of Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed, on Thursday, the twenty-ninth of July, being the day appointed by proclamation for a general Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for putting an end to the late bloody, extended, and expensive war im which we were engaged.

London : Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784.

PML 19068

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"The fact that you, Frothingham, claimed you discovered the body at exactly 12:13 P.M. was what first made me suspicious, of course. And then when Billington claimed that he had heard the clock chime the quarter hour just as he and Miss Arbuthnot met for their little assignation in the study, it was clear that you, Merryweather . . ." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.

MA 12662

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Drawing

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Lyceum Theatre, under the special license of the Lord Chamberlain, granted for the present season, to the joint application of all parties interested. ... forming the company of the late Drury Lane Theatre, will, this present Thursday, November, 23, 1809. Perform the comedy of A bold stroke for a wife ... To which will be added (4th time) a new farce in two acts called Not at home! ...

[London : s.n., 1809]

PML 146391.70

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An entirely original supernatural opera in two acts entitled Ruddigore, or, The witch's curse! / written by W.S. Gilbert ; composed by Arthur Sullivan.

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Ruddigore. Libretto

Accession number

GSC 103193

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London ; New York : Chappell, [1921?]

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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Alice's adventures in Wonderland / by Lewis Carroll, author of "Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there" ; illustrated by Bessie Pease.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

London : J. Coker & Co., Ltd., 1931.

PML 352098

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Printed Books

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The Presentation of an Ambassador to the Sultan in the Hall of Petitions of the Topkapi Palace, Constantinople

Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse

1734-1808

ca. 1790

2006.2

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Fantasy of a Villa with a Garden

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720-1778

1966.11:1

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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