Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus.
On September 21, 1897, the most famous editorial in all of US History was published in The Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper at the time.
Virginia O'Hanlon, an 8 year old girl, asked her father Dr Philip O'Hanlon, a corone4r's assistant, if Santa Claus really existed. Dr O'Hanlon encouraged his daughter to write to The Sun, assuring her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so."
Virginia's question was answered by Francis Pharcellus Church and ran in 7th place on the editorial page. More than a century later it still remains the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper in the English language. All those that read it, both then and today, have found its message extremely moving and uplifting. This wonderful editorial has appeared in books, movies and other media across the globe.
Francis Pharcellus Church
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?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115 W 95th StreetYes, 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 dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? 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. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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