Robert Frost's Christmas cards collected by Dartmouth College in New Hampshire

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One of Robert Frost's Christmas cards is seen. Famed poet Frost once waited until July to send his Christmas cards. AP Photo/Dartmouth College. By: Holly Ramer, Associated Press HANOVER, NH (AP).- Take heart, holiday procrastinators: Famed poet Robert Frost once waited until July to get his Christmas cards in the mail. Unlike the flimsy, forgettable cards of today, however, Frost's cards arguably were worth the wait. For the past 28 years of his life, he teamed up with a boutique printer to send beautifully illustrated booklets featuring a different poem for each year. Dartmouth College, which Frost briefly attended as a student and later returned as a lecturer, has collected more than 500 of the cards, including the first installment, which was sent without Frost's knowledge. In 1929, Joseph Blumenthal of the New York-based Spiral Press, who was setting type for one of Frost's poetry collections, decided the poem "Christmas Trees" would make an attractive greeting card. With permission from Frost's publisher, he printed 275 copies,  one of which eventually made its way to Frost. ... More