The copies he used to give a quick reading. This is the first one he ever did. The First Reading he gave within 1853 and this is the prompt copy or the performance copy for a christmas carol. He first read it in birmingham in 1853. This was not in existence. Had about creating a text that could be short enough that people could listen to you for over a period of an hour, 10 minutes or so and so he had a binder of the 1849 station, and then he went through it over a couple of years for the editorial passes and you can see that he sometimes we wrote passages because if he would have deleted something, which was mentioned briefly described and referred to later, he had to introduce it so that is what you see here. You also find the . Where pages for paste it together, that he wasnt going to read at all. You can see postage stamps. Use these to turn the pages quickly and they tortured him and have broken overmuch use. And here we have a photo of him taking in new york. This is the last gro
This has the highest authority directly from dunns on manuscripts. You can see changes or differences between the text that is represented here and the transcriptions that were made in the First Edition perpetuated throughout the centuries. For instance in the sonnet all who were tierneys, all those who have been destroyed by this will be resurrected on the day of judgment. And this word dearth was transcribed as death and was only 20th century that it was read correctly and corrected. Host who is john dunn . Guest john dunn was a metaphysical poet from the 17th century. He used wit, philosophical inquiry and in order to create highly formal and complex sonnets and other worms of poetry. Host what else you want to show his . Guest we have a wonderful dickens collection, over 550 letters. What is really remarkable is that we have 13 of his performance copies, the copies he used to get public readings and this was the first one he ever did. The First Reading ever gave was in 1953 and thi