100 Years of Kids’ Letters to Santa: Comedy, Bribery, and Tragedy

Liz Biscevic

Move over, North Pole. The town of Santa Claus, Ind., has a good claim to the title of No. 1 address for Christmas letters. The little town has received over a million Christmas letters from all over the world in the past 100 years.

From that enormous stack of mail, 250 letters have been chosen and published in a new compilation from Indiana University Press. “Letters to Santa Claus” features epistles ranging from standard Christmas lists and funny anecdotes to tales of heartbreak and tragedy.

Click through the slideshow above to see some of the best of the bunch.

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