Clement Clarke Moore — a remark

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“It was written at the request of my children, and for their amusement, on Christmas Eve, 1822.”

A modest account of the poem’s origin as a family Christmas entertainment · Preface to Poems (1844)

About Clement Clarke Moore

Clement Clarke Moore

15 July 1779–10 July 1863

Clement Clarke Moore was born in New York City on 15 July 1779, into a family whose standing joined religious authority, learning, landholding, and old New York connections. He died on 10 July 1863, five days before his eighty-fourth birthday, having become a respected scholar, educator, churchman, landowner, and…

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