{"id":"cw/works/duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743","corpus":"cw-works","type":"treatise-or-other","author":"charles-wesley","title":"Hymn for Christmas Day (1743)","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1743","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":"https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt-cw-published","scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-works","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743","passage_ids":["cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743-full","cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743-stanza-01"],"word_count":226,"themes_auto":["christology"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743-full","cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743-stanza-01"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743","source_title":"Hymn for Christmas Day (1743)","source_type":"hymn","year":1743,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Hymn for Christmas Day (1743) Baker list, 80 Editorial Introduction: The ledgers of William Strahan, a printer in London, contain an entry on December 23, 1743 charging the Wesleys for \"printing a hymn for Christmas Day.\" The amount of paper used shows that it was a single broadsheet. However, no copies of this printing appear to have survived. It is most likely that this was a reprint of \"Hymn for Christmas Day\" in HSP (1739), 206-8. However, there is the slight possibility that it was instead an initial appearance of one of the hymns that would compose Nativity Hymns (1745). Edition: Charles Wesley. Hymn for Christmas Day. London: Strahan, 1743. no copies extant","word_count":113,"source_url":"https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt-cw-published","themes":["christology"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-02-27T08:18:55.469351"},{"id":"cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743-stanza-01","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-duke-hymn-for-christmas-day-1743","source_title":"Hymn for Christmas Day (1743) (Stanza 1)","source_type":"hymn-stanza","year":1743,"chunk_index":1,"text":"Hymn for Christmas Day (1743) Baker list, 80 Editorial Introduction: The ledgers of William Strahan, a printer in London, contain an entry on December 23, 1743 charging the Wesleys for \"printing a hymn for Christmas Day.\" The amount of paper used shows that it was a single broadsheet. However, no copies of this printing appear to have survived. It is most likely that this was a reprint of \"Hymn for Christmas Day\" in HSP (1739), 206-8. However, there is the slight possibility that it was instead an initial appearance of one of the hymns that would compose Nativity Hymns (1745). Edition: Charles Wesley. Hymn for Christmas Day. London: Strahan, 1743. no copies extant","word_count":113,"source_url":"https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt-cw-published","themes":["christology"],"stanza_number":1,"created_at":"2026-02-27T08:18:55.469469"}]}