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A CHRISTMAS DREAM BY JAMES T. BRADY.
A CHRISTMAS DREAM.
BYJAMES T. BRADY.
ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD S. HALL.NEW YORK: PRINTED BY C. A. ALVORD.
1860.Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by STEPHEN C. MASSETT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
MR STEPHEN C. MASSETT:My Dear Stephen:
I dedicate to you this little volume. The sketch it contains was written some fourteen years ago, when you were a clerk in my office, and although it was published at the time in the "New World," then edited by our mutual friend, PARK BENJAMIN, Esq., I did not suppose it would ever be presented in a more durable form. But as you retained a copy, took it with you on your various pilgrimages, and during the Christmas season read it to strangers even at the antipodes, it seems to be yours more than mine, and I thus bestow it upon you. Mr. EDWARD S. HALL has made the book valuable by the admirable illustrations with which he has adorned it, and the friends for circulation amongst whom exclusively it is designed, may possibly derive gratification from having this frail memorial of him who with affection and esteem subscribes himself
JAMES T. BRADY.
NEW YORK, March 26, 1860.