Re: Re: Re: Re: Tuba and Flute


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Posted by Literary authority on November 12, 2002 at 12:20:04:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Tuba and Flute posted by Rick Denney on November 12, 2002 at 10:26:27:

Rick "who didn't think Santa Claus was quite so short" Denney

"He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf"

- Major Henry Livingston Jr. (1748-1828)
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

--from the link given below:
"Until recently it was believed that this ballad was written in 1822 for Clement Clarke Moore's two daughters, Margaret and Charity, and later anonymously published in the Troy [New York] Sentinel on December 23, 1823. But, according to University of Toronto English Library, in 2000, Don Foster, in his book Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous (New York: Henry Holt, 2000) was able to demonstrate that Moore could not have been the author. Foster concluded that it was probably written by Major Henry Livingston Jr. For another analysis of the authorship see Christmas (Moore or Less?)."





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