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Visit From St Nicholas Author Kept Identity Secret
Clement Clarke Moore, Ph D, wrote the famed Night Before Christmas but did not seek credit. The verse appeared anonymously in newspapers in 1823 and only twenty-two years later was published under his name. Moore, a professor of Greek and Oriental Literature, lived in Chelsea Manhattan. He feared odd reactions from church and public for a poetical children’s poem, yet the verses became a national classic and are now linked to his name in encyclopedias and memorials.
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Clement Clarke Moore
Prem St Nicholas
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Ninth Avenue
Twenty Second
Twenty-third Streets
Manhattan
Chelsea
New York
Catharine Taylor Moore
Trinity Parish
Moore
St. Nichols
St. Nicholas
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Dr. Moore
Social Register
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St. Nicholas Sea
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Clement Clarke
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T Moore
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Peter's Episcopal Church
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