morgan library
this weekend, we (visitors and the roommate and i) headed to the morgan library to finish our christmas in new york tour. to be honest, i also really wanted to see their manuscript of a christmas carol . they were very good sports. the visitors really like the babar exhibit. we spent the most time in this section. everyone seemed to like it from the little kids to the "grown ups" wandering around. the exhibit is broken up into a room for the father's book and a room for the son's. reviewers have said that they have never seen a series written by two people so seamlessly integrated and transitioned. personally, i never realized it was written by two different people. we did see the only manuscript (not just remaining, the only one ever) of charles dickens' a christmas carol . he wrote it in 6 weeks and couldn't afford lots of paper this manuscript is a mess. we also went saw john milton's a paradise lost . they have the only remaining (in