Note: 5 stories The five stories were originally published together, as the entire contents of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,: No. V (see). Thus these stories are part of The Sketch Book (series). They have been published as a collection many times as Christmas [...]; Old Christmas; Old English Christmas. Randolph Caldecott illustrated one with 2nd ed. reported 1876, OCLC 960872557. Irving wrote The Sketch Book while resident in England 1815 to 1819, and visited Aston Hall, near Birmingham, during the very last years that English manor was occupied by its original Holte family, 1631 to 1817. The Old Christmas series features Christmas celebrations experienced by Crayon on a visit to Bracebridge Hall--named after Abraham Bracebridge, husband of the last Holte occupant at Aston Hall. The Christmas traditions that Crayon experiences in fiction had been largely abandoned in fact when Irving visited Aston Hall. His presentation in these stories helped create British and American notions of old-fashioned English Christmas. --Wikipedia: "Aston Hall", "Bracebridge Hall", "The Sketch Book"