In September 1897, a letter arrived in the newsroom of The Sun, one of New York's great newspapers of the time. The letter came from a child whose 'little friends' had been questioning something quite close to her heart: Santa Claus.
Virginia O'Hanlon's letter came across the desk of Francis P. Church, longtime Sun writer, who produced on deadline a short reply that beca...
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