CSPAN2 Berg Collection Of English And American Literature September 7, 2014
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 some...