A Christmas Carol / The original manuscript

Transcriber's Note: this is a facsimile version of the original manuscript, hand-written by Charles Dickens. Every effort has been made to preserve the appearance of the First Edition—page breaks and labels have been kept, to match the original script, and spelling, grammar and typographical errors have been left unchanged.
Copyright © 1967 by James H. Heineman, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.
Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC 2.
This Dover edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in New York by James H. Heineman, Inc., in 1967. This edition is published by special arrangement with James H. Heineman, Inc., 19 Union Square West, New York, N. Y. 10003, publishers of the clothbound edition.
International Standard Book Number: 0-486-20980-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-177891
Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N. Y. 10014
NOTE TO READER
All inconsistencies of spelling and punctuation in the First Edition have been retained by the Publishers. The portions of manuscript reproduced on pages 38, 42, 56, 58, 70, 92 and 136 appeared originally on the verso of the facing manuscript page.
/My own, and only, MS of the Book/
Charles Dickens