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Re: Did Clement Moore Steal "The Night Before Christmas"?
by henry teller on 2005/12/23 10:41:01 US/Eastern
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Major Henry Livingstone was an ancestor of mine. You will find that Clement Moore , when he 'wrote' the Night Before Christmas' included the typos of the Troy newspaper, i.e. Donner and Blitzen, should have been Dundher und Blitzen..Since these were Dutch words, the paper wasn't sure of the spelling, but Moore did manage to include the misspellings in his version of the poem. There is a long history of Livingstone descendants remembering this poem coming from the Major...
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