“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” Church wrote. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and ...

Santa’s existence was proved conclusively in 1897 by Francis P. Church, of The New York Sun. His editorial is reprinted here ...

One of the most famous letters to the editor ever published was written by an 8-year-old girl who had doubts about Santa ...

Francis P. Church’s editorial, 'Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus' first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897, and is ...

Dec. 20 to noon Christmas Day, Santa can be reached by radio 24/7 to all first responders in Hampton Roads, including local ...

Santa arrived in Bristol, Virginia on Christmas Eve riding on the back of a S.W.A.T. Bearcat. Members of the Bristol ...

In 1897 a little girl called Virginia O'Hanlon (1889–1971) who lived in New York City asked her father whether Santa Claus ...

Is it all real?’ the Sun asked 127 years ago. ‘Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.’ ...

It is our pleasure to once again share this holiday tradition with our readers. On Sept. 21, 1897, the New York Sun published ...

The journalist Francis P. Church, a native of Rochester, wrote thousands of editorials for The New York Sun. He is known for just one: an unsigned response to a letter from an 8-year-old girl being ...

It is our pleasure to once again share this holiday tradition with our readers. On Sept. 21, 1897, the New York Sun published what has become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. The letter was ...