NMLP P-044405 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

A Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)

Clement C. Moore · Henry M. Onderdonk (New York) · 1848

A genuine textual test exists: the 1848 chapbook follows the punctuation of the 1836 Rural Repository / 1838 Parley's Magazine line — "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer! now, Vixen! / On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Dunder and Blixen!" — rather than the 1823 Troy Sentinel's "Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen, / On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;"

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044405 for "A Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)" by Clement C. Moore (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044405, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).