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The round-robin letter has been the subject of much ridicule, particularly from the Guardian journalist Simon Hoggart, who pilloried examples of the genre in his newspaper column, as well as writing the book The Hamster That Loved Puccini: The Seven Modern Sins of Christmas Round-robin Letters. One example Hoggart cited read:
Round-robin letter; Rovaniemi; S. Santa Claus; Santon (figurine) Christmas seals; Secret Santa; The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close; Snap-dragon (game) Snow ...
English: Round about our Coal Fire, or, Christmas Entertainments ... with some curious Memories of Old Father Christmas; Shewing what Hospitality was in former Times, and how little there remains of it at present. This pamphlet includes one of the earliest known version of the story now known as Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Jessé de Forest's Round Robin from 1621. The term dates from the 17th-century French Rond ruban (round ribbon).This described the practice of signatories to petitions against authority (usually Government officials petitioning the Crown) appending their names on a document in a non-hierarchical circle or ribbon pattern (and so disguising the order in which they have signed) so that none may ...
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Round-robin (document), a document signed by several parties in a circle in order to hide the identity of the leader; Round-robin letter, a news-filled letter typically accompanying a Christmas card; Round-Robin Letter (Spanish–American War), a letter written in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War in 1898