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- ID
- bx1
- Title
- "Music for Christmas"
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 2
- Word Count
- 3600
- Publisher
- Illustrated
- Publication Year
- 1951
- Document Types
- Eads, Additions to
- Comic Fiction
- Uncollected Antemortem
- Topics
- Music, Christmas
A comic portrayal of provincial rivalries, involving a musical snob with London tastes, a north Midlands woman favoring local talent, and -- relaying gossip and innuendo between the two -- a grocery deliveryman.
In Illustrated (December 29, 1951, pp. 30-31) and the ebook edition of The Song of the Wren. (Bloomsbury, 2016)
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