Nicholas" is likely where we got the popular names for Santa's reindeer-there seems to be no reference to their names prior to the poem. His mother was Dutch, and many references in the poem are as well. Livingston's Dutch background is a key component in this mystery. Nicholas" to them for 15 years before it was published. The problem? The family of Henry Livingston, Jr., claimed their father had been reciting "A Visit From St. A story emerged that a housekeeper had, without Moore’s knowledge, sent the piece-which he had written for his kids-to the newspaper, and in 1844, the poem was officially included in an anthology of Moore's work. It wasn't until 13 years later that Clement Clarke Moore, a professor and poet, was named as the author. When it first appeared in the newspaper on December 23, 1823, there was no name attached to it. It's a literary mystery: Nearly 200 years after it was published in New York's Troy Sentinel, we still don't know who really wrote "A Visit from St.
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