
Poem begins: 'Twas the night before Christmas [...]
Language
en
Duration
~3 minutes (3K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921.
Credits
hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Release date
2022-07-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1779–1863
Best remembered for the poem later known as "’Twas the Night Before Christmas," this New York scholar and writer helped shape one of the most familiar Christmas traditions in American culture. He was also a professor of biblical learning and a key figure in the early history of what became the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan.
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