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He's a figure known all over the world, a support for gift giving, the wintertime christmas and dessert eating. At times he's called Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus or Kris Kringle and is arguably probably the most popular heavyset celebrity - well at least to precede Elvis Presley. Yes, he's the loveable, suffering and jolly old chap we call Santa Claus. In if the person in the red suit was the real deal 1897 one young girl from Manhattan, at the urging of her father, took it upon herself to ask the New York Sun Newspaper once and for all.
Countless numbers of letters are written to newspapers all over the world annually, and few if any, will ever see a moment of popularity beyond the visitor of these respective dailies. But, over a hundred years ago an easy page comprised of only the words, I am 8 years old. A few of my little friends say there's no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you see it in The Sun, it's so. Please tell the facts to me, can there be a Santa Claus? would go on to become one of the most enduring symbols of North Americas get on Christmas.
One day in September 1897 (historians suppose that the problem arose not in December as one may possibly expect, but in September, because this would have been right after the new school year had commenced and kids would have already been turning their attention to Christmas) young Virginia O'Hanlon greeted her father, Dr. Philip O'Hanlon (who worked for a coroners office), with the sort of innocence only the young can get. She likely asked in a small but inquisitive voice if the rumours of her school friends were right, was Santa Claus artificial? Now not knowing for certain how anxious the air got in the room at that time when Mr OHanlons only son or daughter asked him to debunk or concur with the story of St. Nick, we are able to only think that he didn't have the center to break the truth to her himself. And therefore the letter (and its reply) that could head to become almost just as much a symbol of the Christmas season as Santa himself came to be.
Down Virginia went to write a letter at her fathers advice, which she sent himself, to the Brand New York Sun newspaper where its answer was given to an ex-civil war correspondent turned newspaper editorial writer by the title of Francis Pharcellus Church. History has it that Mr Church was not just jumping for joy at the project, but he took the childs page back to his desk and proceeded to publish one of the most stirring tributes to Christmas that's ever adorned the pages of any paper.
Perhaps it was the atrocities of war he'd observed firsthand, perhaps it was their own need to rely on Father Christmas, or perhaps it was exactly what he'd have said had anyone asked him if Santa was real, but that time Francis Church wrote an earnest, dramatic and nearly poetic reaction to Miss OHanlons query. In no small terms he assured her that certainly Santa Claus, or at the very least the distinguished character and message of Saint Nicholass picture were as real as other things on the planet.
Though at the time it went in the Ny Sun it was but the seventh editorial on its site, this candid, lively and touching response would go on to locate its way into the hearts and Christmases of thousands of people, spanning many generations since the 1890s.
In reality both letter and its solution are published in tons of newspapers around the globe each year, a tribute and testimony to Virginias, Francis Churchs and Santa Clauss contribution to the magic, wonder and eternal beauty of Xmas.
