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Title: A Christmas Greeting

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Release Date: January 27, 2010 [EBook #31103]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHRISTMAS GREETING ***

Produced by Jim Adcock

New Juveniles for 1864

PUBLISHED BY
JAMES MILLER,
522 BROADWAY, N. Y.

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MAGNET STORIES,
For Summer Days and Winter Nights.
SECOND SERIES.

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IMPULSE AND PRINCIPLE,
AND OTHER STORIES.
BY MISS ABBOTT.

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THE PRIVATE PURSE,
And other Stories.
BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

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TURNS OF FORTUNE
And other Stories.
BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

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Published By James Miller, 522 Broadway.

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PHILIP GREY,
OR THREE MONTHS AT SEA.
BY PETER PARLEY.

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Hans Andersen's Wonderful Tales.
ILLUSTRATED.

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HANS ANDERSEN'S STORY BOOK.
ILLUSTRATED.

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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.
ILLUSTRATED.

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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.
New Edition. Illustrated.

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ESOP'S FABLES.
New Edition. Illustrated.

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Aunt Carrie's Rhymes for Children.

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LIFE OF GEO. WASHINGTON.
With Illustrations by Darley.

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[Illustration: "The Dream of Little Tuk."]
THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK.

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Hans Andersen's Library.

A CHRISTMAS GREETING:
A Series of Stories,
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
ILLUSTRATED.

[Illustration: "Children Dancing."]

Published by James Miller,
522 Broadway.

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A CHRISTMAS GREETING

A Series of Stories,

BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

[Illustration: "Man Carrying Firewood."]

New York:

(Successor to C.S. Francis & Co.)

Published by James Miller,

522 Broadway.

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TO

CHARLES DICKENS, Esq.

I am again in my quiet Danish home, but my thoughts are daily in dear
England, where, a few months ago, my many friends transformed for me
reality into a charming story.

Whilst occupied with a greater work, there sprung forth--as the
flowers spring forth in the forest--seven short stories.* I feel a
desire, a longing, to transplant in England the first produce of my
poetic gar