The New York Public Library, Wallach Division, Print Collection
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Tiny Tim and Little Bob Cratchit.
This wood engraving by A.V.S. Anthony, after the drawing by Sol Eytinge, Jr., was first published as one of the special portfolio of large "Christmas Pictures" featured in the December 31, 1870, issue of Every Saturday. Dickens was a creator haunted by his creations. He told James T. Fields, his American publisher,
that "at midnight and in the morning, on the sea and on the land, Tiny Tim and Little Bob Cratchit
were ever tugging at his coat-sleeve, as if impatient for him to get back to his desk and continue
the story of their lives."
Thackeray on A Christmas Carol
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I am not sure that the allegory is a very complete one, and protest, with the classics, against the use of blank verse in prose; but here all objections stop. Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness. The last two people I heard speak of it were women; neither knew the other, or the author, and both said, by way of criticism, 'God bless him!'
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--William Makepeace Thackeray, "A Box of Novels," Fraser's Magazine (February 1844)
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