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 ...

Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? — Virginia O’Hanlon, 115 W. 95th St. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.

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 ...

While others age, Virginia O’Hanlon is forever a little girl thanks to The New York Sun. Her letter asking if there’s a Santa Claus, and the paper’s response, helps each new generation of parents ...

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.

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.

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 ...