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Old Christmas. Washington Irving (1876)
Originally published as five short stories in the American edition of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20), Old Christmas is Washington Irving’s later, illustrated version of the work, portraying the good old-fashioned customs of Christmas. The youngest of eleven children to Scottish parents William and Sara Irving, Washington was born in 1783 after […]