Christopher: I don't have a cite for you, but I remember last Christmas
season an installment of the A&E channel's Biography program which
profiled Santa Claus. It went through the whole evolution of the
character from early, early times through the St. Nicholas period to
Father Christmas, etc. The Santa as we know him in the US was created
here, I think, for some advertising campaign. He was picked up and put in
the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." That was sometime in the
first half of the 20th century. Rudolph was added later to the story by
someone else.
This little essay probably doesn't answer your question at all, but I
thought I would start the season early!
Good luck with getting the real date!
Anne Kirkhope
Law Librarian
Eastman & Smith Ltd.
Toledo, OH
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, J. Christopher Carr wrote:
> An attorney wants to find the oldest reference to Rudolph the Red-Nosed
> Reindeer as possible, or some definitive statement of the date of his
> invention. Can anyone supply a cite? TIA
> Christopher
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