What newspaper printed the now famous letter from a little girl named Virginia O'Hanlon to assure her that there was a Santa Claus?

Answer 1

The New York Sun. Somewhat oddly the editorial was printed on September 2l, the autumnal equinox, waayy out of the Yule tide. I have read the article and it is interesting in about 8 Paragraphs, Santa Claus is mentioned about 7 or 8 times, Christmas Eve only Once, and God only once int he phrase (Thank God! he exists) in reference to S.Claus. There is not mention of the coming of the Christ Child, which is really what Christmas should be primarily focused upon. I believe the editor who wrote the article was named Frank Church, at any rate his last name was Church, Irony or Ironies. The New York Sun was also implicated in the l833 era Great Moon Hoax which climaxed with the discovery of Batmen on the Moon whose wings folded away when they assumed a walking posture! The same paper- this was well over a century before the Bob Kane creation of (Batman). way out in left field.