ABSTRACT
First published in The Tatler, I, 25 December 1830, pp. 385–6; see headnote above, pp. 117–20. It was reprinted in Hunt, Political, pp. 253–7. Hunt wrote often of Christmas day: cf. his essays on Christmas and the theatre (1830; Hunt, Dramatic, pp. 254–5) and ‘Christmas Day Divided between Two Worlds’ (1857; Hunt, Political, pp. 391–7).
