Christmas with Anne and other holiday stories

Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories is a collection of 16 stories re-discovered by Rea Wilmshurst and published in 1995. Two stories are Christmas Anne chapters, and the other 14 stories are Christmas and New Year stories (original publication dates listed below, as in the book).

Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves (from Anne of Green Gables, 1908)
Christmas at Red Butte (1909)
The End of the Young Family Feud (1907)
Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket (1903?)
The Osborne's Christmas (1903)
The Unforgotten One (1906)
Clorinda's Gifts (1906)
Katherine Brooke Comes to Green Gables (from Anne of Windy Poplars, 1934)
A Christmas Mistake (1899)
A Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road (1905)
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner (1906)
A Christmas Inspiration (1901?)
The Josephs' Christmas (1902)
Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner (1910)
Ida's New Year Cake (1905)
Bertie's New Year (1905)

Short summaries of the stories:

Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves (from Anne of Green Gables, 1908)
Chapter from Anne of Green Gables where Matthew gives Anne a gift she's long desired.

Christmas at Red Butte (East and West, December 25, 1909, pp. 409-410)
Set in Saskatchewan, the story describes Theodora's Christmas Eve fears that her cousins, the Martin children, will not have gifts from Santa Claus and what follows on Christmas Day.

The End of the Young Family Feud (Epworth Herald, December 14, 1907, pp. 743-745)
The three Young daughters are invited to visit their Father's boyhood home at Monkshead. Their hosts are absent and leave them only a message at the station to go to their home anyway, but they later learn they are not in the right house after all.

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket (Young People, n.d. [1903?])
Lucy Rose is ashamed of her Aunt's insistence on taking her "countrified" basket to Pembroke to visit their town relatives Edward and Geraldine. Then trouble ensues and Lucy Rose's view changes.

The Osborne's Christmas (Zion's Herald, December 16, 1903, pp. 1604-1605)
Myra comes to visit her cousins, the Osborne children, for Christmas. She is surprised to learn that Christmas awakes no joy in them, and gives them a suggestion to change this.

The Unforgotten One (Zion's Herald, December 19, 1906, pp. 1619-1620; Canadian Corner, December 18, 1909, pp. 15 and 23;and as "She was the Forgotten One" in Springfield Republican, December 22, 1907, pp. 24)
Nanny resents that all of the cousins at Ingleside (not the Blythe Ingleside) have forgotten Cousin Avis.

Clorinda's Gifts (Epworth Herald, December 15, 1906, pp. 731-732)
Clorinda despairs the coming of Christmas because she is too poor to buy the gifts she wants to, until she receives advice from her Aunt Emmy.

Katherine Brooke Comes to Green Gables (from Anne of Windy Poplars, 1934)
Anne invites the icy Katherine Brooke to Green Gables for the holidays.

A Christmas Mistake (Family Herald, December 20, 1899, pp. 5)
Mr. Palmer, an abstracted teacher makes a mistake as a messenger, inviting the Grant family to spend Christmas with Cornelia Millar.

A Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road (King's Own, December 23, 1905, pp. 201-202)
Two boys from Blackburn Hill, Phil and Frank, take a shortcut through the neighboring Enderly Road district. The districts have bad feeling between them, but the boys find a good deed needs to be done for a young girl Maggie who does them a favor.

The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner (East and West, December 22, 1906, pp. 401-402)
Sister and brother, Alexia and Stephen Falsom are struggling through Christmas with sadness looming and the lost friendship of their neighbors Josie and Duncan. The Falsoms realize soon they will live separately with lost hopes and dreams after their father's death. Then their Great-Uncle James writes that he will come to spend Christmas with them and a feast is prepared to make a good impression, but Alexia's dinner mysteriously disappears.

A Christmas Inspiration (Family Herald, n.d. [1901?]; Churchman, December 19, 1909, pp. 918-920)
On Christmas Eve, Jean Lawrence, Nellie Preston, Belle and Olive Reynolds and Beth Hamilton celebrate together in their boarding house, all being either unable to go home for the holiday or having no home to go to. They make the best of the evening, until they think of another who needs Christmas cheer.

The Josephs' Christmas (Sunday School Visitor, n.d. [1902])
The eight Joseph children have a secret air around them as Christmas approaches them on the prairies and they each think of gifts for their family members. With poor crops, the children struggle to come up with gifts, but they are in for a surprise on Christmas Day.

Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner (Congregationalist, January 1, 1910, pp. 19-20; East and West, December 31, 1910)
Prissy Baker decides to cook her estranged Uncle Richard his New Year's dinner as a secret surprise.

Ida's New Year Cake (Days of Youth, December 31, 1905, pp. 2-3, 7)
Ida Mitchell invites her friends at the boarding house (Mary Craig, Sara Reid, Josie Pye (a familiar name), and her idol Miss Monroe) to celebrate the New Year with a special fruit cake sent to her by her mother. However, the fruit cake isn't delivered to her.

Bertie's New Year (Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, December 28, 1905, pp. 10-12)
A sweet, solitary errand-boy Bertie Ross receives New Year's goodwill.