MA 97, Preface
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Charles Dickens
1812–1870
A Christmas Carol in Prose : Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.
Autograph manuscript signed, December 1843
Preface
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1900
MA 97
Transcription:
PREFACE
I have endeavoured, in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each
other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it!
Their faithful friend and Servant,
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December 1843.