Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Ah, the Mysterious Mr. Christmas…
A schoolfellow of Our Sam at St. Paul’s School. Unfortunately, records of this Christmas fellow were destroyed in a certain fire that Has Not Taken Place before September 1666. Oh, how very convenient …
He MAY be from a family in the gentry of south or southeast Essex County, as “the diary suggests.” (sez L&M Companion “Christmas, Mr. _____” entry)
Or he MAY be the son of tailor Thomas Christmas, admitted as a freeman of the Merchant Tailor’s Company the same year as Pepy’s father. (Same source, which seems to doubt it.)
Or JUST MAYBE this anti-Puritan may be a resident of the North Pole, a Jolly Old Elf whose stomach moves like a bowl full of jelly …
For further exploits of this “Mr. Christmas” see investigative reporter Clement Moore’s reporting at …
Good link! Love the blue snowflakes!
David, I’m glad you’re back. :^)