The Morgan Library & Museum has acquired the earliest manuscript with color illustrations of the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”( more famously known as “The Night Before Christmas”) by Clement Clarke Moore. The book, illustrated by Moore’s daughter Mary Clarke Moore Ogden, will be on view this holiday season in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library along with the beloved manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol from November 26, 2024 through January 5, 2025.

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