Is there a Santa Claus?
Editor’s Note: The following letter to the editor and its reply were published Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1897, in the New York Sun newspaper.
The response was written by the paper’s editor, Francis Pharcellus Church, and has become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial.
We have published it here exactly as it appeared 115 years ago.
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