Interview with Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Interview with Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas who talks about the Christmas of 1897 and the letter she wrote to the New York Sun asking whether there is a Santa Claus. She's an assistant principal at PS 31. Rereading of her letter and the editorial response. "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 8283
Municipal archives id: LT200

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