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.

Every year, the Sentinel republishes the timeless story behind the most famous letter to the editor and editorial ever ...

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

It is, perhaps, the most famous editorial ever written. One that has been reprinted year in,, year out in newspapers around ...

This is a reprint of a timeless column written years ago by the journalist Eric Newton. More than a hundred years ago, an ...

In September 1897, a letter arrived in the newsroom of The Sun, one of New York's great newspapers of the day. The author was a child whose "little friends" had been questioning something close to her ...

In her childhood, Virginia O'Hanlon penned a letter that would prove that meeting Santa is not the only way to determine if he is real.

It is heartening to see the love the children have for Santa Claus. It is a reminder of the magical side of Christmas: the ...

Children (and adults) can write letters to Santa Claus through the U.S. Postal Service’s Operation Santa program, which ...

Writing letters to Santa Claus may not be the oldest Christmas tradition observed around the world – but it’s one that most ...

"He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its ...

One of this nation’s most enduring Christmas tales is the reply by Francis P. Church, editorial writer for the New York Sun, to a letter from little Virginia O’Hanlon of Manhattan, asking if there was ...