The wife of Santa Claus is first mentioned in the short story "A Christmas Legend" (1849), by James Rees, a Philadelphia-based Christian missionary.^[10]
In the story, an old man and woman, both carrying a bundle on the back,
are given shelter in a home on Christmas Eve as weary travelers. The
next morning, the children of the house find an abundance of gifts for
them, and the couple is revealed to be not "old Santa Claus and his
wife", but the hosts' long-lost elder daughter and her husband in
disguise.

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Mrs. Santa Claus is mentioned by name in the pages of the Yale Literary Magazine
in 1851, where the student author (whose name is given only as "A. B.")
writes of the appearance of Santa Claus at a Christmas party:

n bounded that jolly, fat and funny old elf, Santa Claus. His
array was indescribably fantastic. He seemed to have done his best; and
we should think, had Mrs. Santa Claus to help him.^[11]



An account of a Christmas musicale at the State Lunatic Asylum in Utica, New York in 1854 included an appearance by Mrs. Santa Claus, with baby in arms, who danced to a holiday song.^[12]




A passing references to Mrs. Santa Claus was made in an essay in Harper's Magazine in 1862;^[13] and in the comic novel The Metropolites (1864) by Robert St. Clar, she appears in a woman's dream, wearing "Hessian high boots, a dozen of short, red petticoats, an old, large, straw bonnet" and bringing the woman a wide selection of finery to wear.^[14]