“Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus…”
This 1897 letter to the New York Sun prompted the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper. You have certainly read it, probably many times.
But did you know that the original hand-written letter, kept in a scrapbook for 100 years, turned up on Antiques Road Show in 1997?