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Washington Irving’s ‘American’ Christmas

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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A Visit From Saint Nicholas

The poem is often attributed to clement clark moore, who was friends with washington irving. However there is a competing claim that major henry livingstone junior is the person who wrote this poem and that happened all the way back in 18 o eight. We talked this authorship dispute in our christmas triple feature, and that is going to be our saturday classic on december 20 fifth.

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