An 1886 cartoon drawn by Tom Merry showing the British prime minister William Gladstone dreaming of Queen Victoria's Christmas, a dinner with representatives of the nations in the British Empire. Gladstone is depicted as the miser Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The ghost is Gladstone's predecessor Benjamin Disraeli. (Wellcome Collection)
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