Groton School Quarterly, Winter 2019

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Winter 2019 • Volume LXXX , No. 1

This tiny, leatherbound edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was read to Groton boys starting in 1899, if not earlier. The inscription inside the front cover says: “Read to the boys of Groton School … 1899, 1900, 1901.” Facing the inscription is the signature of Samuel Endicott Peabody, the father of Groton School founder Endicott Peabody. A letter by the school founder reveals that Groton students sent the elder Peabody a petition in 1889, asking him to come to the Circle and read to them. During that visit, he read the Dickens classic, too.

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