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Unusual Christmas Gift Ties Stevenson to Annie Ide
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a deed transferring his birthday to Annie H. Ide of Vermont as a Christmas gift after learning she was born on Christmas Day. Annie later celebrated birthdays in Samoa with Ide and Stevenson, later receiving valuable gifts from Stevenson's fated birthday deed. The tale also recounts the Virginia O’Hanlon Santa Claus editorial and its enduring influence.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
New England
Mecer
Western Newspaper Union
Elmo Scott Watson
Henry Clay Ide
Vermont
Green Mountain
Islands
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Ide
Samoa
Stevenson
Annie
Ballantrae
Vallima
Upolu
Annie H. Ide
H. C. Ide
Saint Johnsbury
Caledonia
United States of America
Lloyd Ogbourne
Harold Watts
Annie Ide
Little Annie
Shay
Jason
Jaime
Rich
Port Washington
Long Island
Paris
Anita Leslie
Shane Leslie
Marjorie Ide Leslie
Annie Ide Cochran
Duke and
Ess
Kent
Royal
England
Lamp
New York City
The
New York Sun
Virgina
Virginia
Santa Claus
Virgi
the Sun
Clement C. Moore
St. Nicholas
America