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He is a number known around the world, an endorsement for gift giving, the wintertime christmas and dessert eating. At times he is named Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus or Kris Kringle and is perhaps the most popular heavyset celebrity - well at least to precede Elvis Presley. Yes, he's the loveable, enduring and jolly previous chap we call Santa Claus. In 1897 one it was taken by little girl from Manhattan, at the urging of her father, upon herself to ask the Ny Sun Newspaper once and for all if the person in the red suit was the real deal.

If any, will ever see a moment of fame beyond the visitor of these respective dailies countless numbers of letters are written to newspapers throughout the world every year, and few. However, over 100 years ago an easy page composed of only what, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you see it in The Sun, it is therefore. Please tell me the facts, can there be a Santa Claus? Could go on to become one of the most enduring symbols of North Americas get on Christmas.

One day in September 1897 (historians speculate that the question arose not in December as one may expect, in September, because this would have been soon after the new school year had commenced and kids would have previously been turning their attention to Christmas) young Virginia O'Hanlon greeted her father, Dr. Philip O'Hanlon (who labored for a coroners office), with the kind of purity only the very young can get. She likely asked in a tiny but curious speech if the rumours of her school chums were correct, was Santa Claus artificial? Today not knowing for certain how tense the air got in the area at that time when Mr OHanlons only son or daughter asked him to debunk or concur with the tale of St. Nick, we could only think that he did not have one's heart to break the facts to her himself. And so the letter (and its response) that could go to become nearly just as much emblematic of the Christmas season as Santa himself was born.

Off Virginia went along to write a letter at her men idea, which she sent herself, to the Newest York Sun newspaper where its answer was assigned to an ex-civil war correspondent turned newspaper editorial writer by the name of Francis Pharcellus Church. Story has it that Mr Church was not just jumping for joy at the task, but he got the childs letter back once again to his desk and proceeded to create one of the most stirring tributes to Christmas that's ever graced the pages of any paper.

Perhaps it was the atrocities of war he had witnessed firsthand, perhaps it was their own desire to believe in Father Christmas, or perhaps it was just what he would have said had anybody asked him if Santa was real, but that time Francis Church wrote a solemn, extraordinary and almost poetic reaction to Miss OHanlons dilemma. In no small conditions he assured her that indeed Santa Claus, or at the very least the unique spirit and message of Saint Nicholass picture were as real as whatever else on the planet.

Although at the time it went in the New York Sun it was but the seventh column on its site, this honest, exciting and touching answer would go on to locate its way into the minds and Christmases of thousands of people, spanning several years because the 1890s.

In reality both letter and its answer are reprinted in tons of newspapers around the world every year, a tribute and testimony to Virginias, Francis Churchs and Santa Clauss contribution to the classic beauty, wonder and wonder of Xmas.