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A Literary Christmas Miscellany from the Berg Collection  Special Display: This holiday display features Charles Dickens's prompt copy of A Christmas Carol, from which he gave his public readings; a book with a Christmas theme by T.S. Eliot; Christmas greetings by James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, E.E. Cummings, and Maurice Sendak; and a Christmas letter from Jack Kerouac to his future wife, Stella Sampas. About the photograph: Harry Burnett, the son of Charles Dickens’s eldest sister, Fanny Burnett, is said to have been the model for both Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol and Paul Dombey in Dombey and Son. He died in January 1849, only a few months after his mother. “Harry was a singular child,” Fanny’s pastor recalled, “meditative and quaint in a remarkable degree.” This photograph once belonged to Elizabeth Dickens, Charles Dickens’s mother. Image: Photograph of the original Tiny Tim, ca. 1848. NYPL, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |