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The first paragraph asks Santa “While you are planning for everything nice. Pray let me give you a bit of advice”. The next two paragraphs read:
Don’t take it hard, if I say in your ear,
Santa, I think you were partial last year
Loading the rich folks with everything gay
Snubbing the poor ones who came in your way:
Now, of all times in the year I am sure
This is the time to remember the poor.
Plenty of children there are in our city,
Who have no fathers nor mothers to pity;
Plenty of people whose working and heeding
Scarcely can keep all their dear ones from needing
Now if I came every year in December,
They are the ones I should surely remember.
Little red hands, that are aching and cold,
You should have mittens your fingers to hold;
Poor little feet, with your frost bitten toes,
You should be clothed in the warmest of hose
Continues for three more verses on reverse. The verse appears as early as 1878 in Christmas Chimes, Nelson & Phillips, NY. The second page has two additional verses one about a new baby that Santa shouldn’t miss and the second on Robbie’s wants.
A Letter to Santa Claus – written in rhyming verse and asking for more for the poor children. A pen and ink letter written on two 9 ½” x 4 ½” stock cut in the shape of a stocking.
slight discoloration.
Two (2) stocking shaped pages tied together with string. Written in pencil at the top is "Robert B."The first paragraph asks Santa “While you are planning for everything nice. Pray let me give you a bit of advice”. The next two paragraphs read:
Don’t take it hard, if I say in your ear,
Santa, I think you were partial last year
Loading the rich folks with everything gay
Snubbing the poor ones who came in your way:
Now, of all times in the year I am sure
This is the time to remember the poor.
Plenty of children there are in our city,
Who have no fathers nor mothers to pity;
Plenty of people whose working and heeding
Scarcely can keep all their dear ones from needing
Now if I came every year in December,
They are the ones I should surely remember.
Little red hands, that are aching and cold,
You should have mittens your fingers to hold;
Poor little feet, with your frost bitten toes,
You should be clothed in the warmest of hose
Continues for three more verses on reverse. The verse appears as early as 1878 in Christmas Chimes, Nelson & Phillips, NY. The second page has two additional verses one about a new baby that Santa shouldn’t miss and the second on Robbie’s wants.
Price: $125.00
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