'Twas The Night Before Christmas, C.C. Moore 1 audio CD

This poem appeared anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel on December 23, 1823, and was reprinted frequently thereafter, with no attribution until Moore's name was added to it. Moore's authorship of it has been questioned, the alternative author being Henry Livingston Jr., whose other light verse certainly resembles the famous poem.

Moore married Catherine Elizabeth Taylor in 1813, and they settled at Chelsea, in what was then a country estate outside New York City. "A Visit From Saint Nicholas" (1822) was written as a Christmas gift for his children.

From 1840 to 1850, he was a member of our school's board of managers. The school was then know as The New York Institution for the Blind. The school was located on 34th Street and 9th Avenue during that era. The school moved to Pelham Parkway in the Bronx in 1922 and it is known as The New York Institute for Special Education.

Clement C. Moore was more famous in his own day as a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College (now Columbia University) and at General Theological Seminary, who compiled a two volume Hebrew dictionary. He was the only son of Benjamin Moore, a president of Columbia College and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York. He was a graduate of Columbia College, where he earned both his B.A. and his M.A.. From 1840 to 1850, he was a board member of The New York Institution for the Blind on 34th Street and 9th Avenue (now The New York Institute for Special Education). Upon his death in 1863, he was interred in the cemetery at St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Hudson St. November 29, 1899, his body was reinterred in Trinity Churchyard Cemetery. The Moore house "Chelsea", at the time a country estate, gave its name to the surrounding neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan. Indeed, much of the neighborhood was once the property of the Moore family.

The CD contains nine different readings by nine different readers.

Turn on your speakers and you can hear one of those nine now!

1 CD for an approximate play time of 30 minutes

This CD will play on any ordinary CD player, no MP3 player and/or computer is required.

This CD is labeled as pictured.

This item is not eligible for our combined shipping and handling discount.

This CD is made from files originating from librivox.org and are in the public domain.
Although LibriVox condones the selling of this CD, it has nothing to do with the selling of this CD.