sonnet all those destroy our resurrected on the day of judgment in this transcribe his death but john donne from the metaphysical poets who used wit philosophical inquiry to create high of the formal complex forms of poetry rehab the wonderful duck -- dickens collection of first editions but what is remarkable are the copies for personal reading's a first-ever gave was in 1853 this is the performance copy for a christmas carol. and then it 1853 this was not yet in existence then to set about a text that is sure enough to listen to over of period of an hour and 10 minutes and then went through of a period of a couple of years and you could see he sometimes wrote those passages because if he defeated from what was described sarah you also find that it was pasted together you could see postage stamps so the protruding ince have been broken after much use. here we have a photo taken in its new york here is the last group that were ever taken the winter of 67 the final week in the united states. >> host: how to the library get the dickens materials? >> the performance copies came through the pur

here we have the only surviving manuscript of john donne's holy sonnets july satires, paradoxes that was done in his own lifetime. it is not in his hand, but it is in and of his secretary and personal assistant. and this has the highest authority says drive directly from his own manuscripts. you can see changes in the differences between the text presented your and the mistakes and transcriptions that are made in the first edition and and perpetuated throughout the centuries prefer instance, in this audit all who more doors as eggs attorneys to all those two have been destroyed by this will be resurrected on the day of judgment. and this word birth was miss transcribed. and it was only in the 20th-century that it was read correctly and corrected a great poet. a great philosophical inquiry in order to create highly formal and complex sonnets and other forms of poetry. >> what else do you want to show? >> we have a wonderful collection. over 550 letters from all of the first editions. what is really remarkable is that we have our 13 performance copies, the copies he used to give public