Parents await the question with quiet dread. When their child comes home from school and makes that horrid inquiry, they know that innocence is ending. The joy and wonder of childhood passes far ...

Editor's note: "Is There a Santa Claus?" is reprinted from the Sept. 21, 1897, edition of The New York Sun. Is ...

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlon.

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Virginia, ...

Today, Christmas Eve, we continue our tradition of republishing a 19th century New York editorial writer’s passionate defense of Santa Claus. The journalist Francis P. Church, a native of ...

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not ...

Is there a Santa Claus? We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered ...

The following Christmas classic, written by Francis P. Church, was first published in 1897 by The New York Sun. We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing ...

One of this nation’s most enduring Christmas tales is the reply by Francis P. Church, editorial writer for the New York Sun, to a letter from little Virginia O’Hanlon of Manhattan, asking if ...