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

It’s as much a dilemma today as it was more than a century ago when 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father, “Is there a Santa Claus?” He punted. He urged his daughter instead to ask ...

And what this editor is doing is protecting her − and his adult readers." "Is there a Santa Claus?" is reprinted from the Sept. 21, 1897, edition of The Sun of New York City. We take pleasure in ...

The odds of a rising stock market are not significantly different whether or not there is a Santa Claus rally. The absence of ...

According to Wikipedia, the phrase “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” is from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church. Written in response to a letter by 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon ...

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 ...

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 ...

DEAR EDITOR: 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?

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.

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!