Pierpont Morgan Library.

A facsimile of Thackeray's own manuscript and illustrations of a fairy tale, created for a sick child, telling about nonsense adventures at a royal court.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. "A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic. Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions,...