They may have morphed into skinny mall Santa or been corrupted by contentious claims of "this land is my land and only mine," but both exist through our belief in them. As Virginia wondered about ...

Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlon. 115 West Ninety-Fifth Street. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a ...

The author was a child whose "little friends" had been questioning something close to her heart: Santa Claus. Virginia O'Hanlon's plaintive letter came across the desk of Francis P. Church ...

More than a hundred years ago, an 8-year-old girl wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun: “Please tell me the truth: is there a Santa Claus?” The answer — “Yes, Virginia ...

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. Alas!

Church, editorial writer for the New York Sun, to a letter from little Virginia O’Hanlon of Manhattan, asking if there was a Santa Claus. The famed response first appeared in the Sun on Sept.

Its author, little Virginia O'Hanlon, wrote: "I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. My papa says, 'If you see it in the Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth ...

Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon115 West Ninety-Fifth Street Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.

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. Alas! how ...