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As my mother's notations explain, these two books -- Christmas Carols (above) and The Night Before Christmas (below) -- were presents to her family, when she was twelve years old. The gifts came from my Grandmother Rovilla Heideman Lindsey's first cousin, Elizabeth Miller Taylor. Rovilla's mother Anna and Elizabeth's father Jacob were siblings.
I recently shared these photos with my third cousins -- Elizabeth's grandchildren -- so they could what their grandmother sent out for Christmas 80 years ago! Not only that, but here's visible evidence that Elizabeth's gifts, chosen with love and care, were immediately beloved by the recipients and have remained so for the better part of a century.
My cousin Cindy wrote back to say that she has the exact same book of carols "but had no idea of the origin." Now she knows that when her Grandmother Elizabeth went Christmas shopping in 1942, she was so pleased with this book that she bought a copy for herself as well as one for Rovilla. Better yet, both copies have been cherished through the decades by a succession of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters.
with her Kurdish tablecloth as backdrop.
A Peek Inside
The Night Before Christmas
AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!
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