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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.… <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/yes-virginia-there-is-a-santa-claus/|title="Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clause"|publisher=Newseum|date=September 21, 1887|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref></blockquote>
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.… <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/yes-virginia-there-is-a-santa-claus/|title="Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clause"|publisher=Newseum|date=September 21, 1887|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref></blockquote>
O'Hanlon lived in the [[Manhattan]] borough at 115 West 95th Street at the time here letter was written. As an adult, she became a classroom teacher and principal for a total of forty-seven years in the public schools of New York City. She held a doctorate from [[Fordham University]]. Her 1913 marriage to Edwin Malcolm Douglas (1887-1939), ended quickly in divorce. The couple had a daughter, Laura Virginia Douglas Temple (1914-1998).<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10184308/virginia-o_hanlon|title=Virginia OI'Hanlon|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref>
O'Hanlon lived in the Upper West Side of the [[Manhattan]] borough at 115 West 95th Street at the time here letter was written. As an adult, she became a classroom teacher and principal for a total of forty-seven years in the public schools of New York City. She held a doctorate from [[Fordham University]]. Her 1913 marriage to Edwin Malcolm Douglas (1887-1939), ended quickly in divorce. The couple had a daughter, Laura Virginia Douglas Temple (1914-1998).<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10184308/virginia-o_hanlon|title=Virginia OI'Hanlon|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref>
O'Hanlon died at the age of eighty-one in a nursing home in Valatie in Columbia County, [[New York]]. She is interred at Chatham Center Rural Cemetery in North Chatham in Columbia County. The famous letter remains in the possession of O'Hanlon's heirs.<ref name=findagrave/>
O'Hanlon died at the age of eighty-one in a nursing home in Valatie in Columbia County, [[New York]]. She is interred at Chatham Center Rural Cemetery in North Chatham in Columbia County. The famous letter remains in the possession of O'Hanlon's heirs.<ref name=findagrave/>