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!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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.