Peter’s Episcopal Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and Moore’s friend. Nicholas (’Twas the Night Before Christmas),” from Joseph and Thomas Chapman, who were the young son’s of the Rev. The collection also contains four “Dear Santa” letters to Clement Clarke Moore, author of “A Visit from St.
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“Leave it there always in memory of my visit and whenever you look at it or show it to anybody you must let it remind you to be a good little girl,” he wrote.Ī full transcription of the letter is available online. He provides her elaborate instructions meant to keep his visit a secret, but he cautions her not to clean up any boot prints he leaves behind. Twain’s Santa explains to Susie that he could not read her mother’s handwriting, “for I am a foreigner and cannot read English writing well.” Santa informs her that he will “call at your kitchen door” in order to clear up the confusion and bring her the presents she requested. “I have received and read all the letters which you and your little sister have written me by the hand of your mother and your nurses I have also read those which you little people have written me with your own hands - for although you did not use any characters that are in grown people’s alphabets, you used the characters that all children in all lands on earth and in the twinkling stars use …” Nicholas,” which Twain located “in the moon,” depriving the North Pole of its most celebrated resident. The undated, nine-page, letter is addressed from the “Palace of St. The Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of Children’s Literature at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library features a handful of remarkable examples of letters to and from Santa.Ī letter Mark Twain wrote to his young daughter Susie Clemens under the penname “Santa Claus” stands out. Many of these yuletide missives are destined for the recycling bin or lost forever in a forgotten box of mementos in the attic, but a few may survive to become charming artifacts of Christmas past. Undoubtedly some of those children have received replies from the Jolly Old Elf, quite possibly in handwriting strikingly similar to one of their parents’. Children nationwide in recent weeks have written or dictated letters to Santa Claus helpfully offering him a sense of the loot they hope to see under the tree on Christmas morning.
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