![]() No roar of approbation that human voice could set up, would affect me like the faintest whisper of a home such as yours. From that moment…to the present, I have met with few things, certainly I have read no book of our own age which has given me such relief - rather I should say afforded me so much consolation as I have derived from the kindly humanizing & therefore cheerful spirit of the Christmas Carol…’ĭickens' tender letter in response assures him: “trust me you were not wrong in believing - in feeling well-assured I hope - that the testimony you bear to the success of my little book, would sink deep into my heart, and fill it with sad delight. I described as ‘to me more than my son - all my plans of life & hopes of enjoyment having been more or less him - perhaps too much so. John Dillon, a London philanthropist, explains in a note included here that he had written a letter to Dickens sharing that he "had lost by death one who. This copy includes a letter from Dickens to a friend, for whom A Christmas Carol was a major comfort after the death of his son. ![]() ![]() This book, which has come to define Christmas in the Anglophone imagination, was immediately popular-selling out within the month of its publication (by Christmas Eve). London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.įirst edition and first impression of "The Bible of Christmas," with a poignant letter from Dickens discussing the novel (Eckel). ![]()
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