Events Clement Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas introduces the character named "Santa Claus". New Books Ada Reis - Caroline Lamb The Entail - John Galt Liber Amoris - William Hazlitt Monks of Leadenhead - Thomas Gaspey Mountalyth - Jane Harvey Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea - John Franklin The Nieces - Sarah Green The Pilot - James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers - James Fenimore Cooper Posthumous Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quentin Durward - Sir Walter Scott Valperga - Mary Shelley What Shall Be, Shall Be - Mary Meeke The Wizard Priest and the Witch - Quintin Poyney Births March 20 - Ned Buntline, publisher, writer, (+ 1886) December 24 - Matthew Arnold (+ 1888) Deaths February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, poet Awards