This weekend was all
about getting ready for Christmas, and with the help of some fabulous friends
the tree is up, the house is decorated, and a new and very special Christmas
Song plays at my house constantly.
Along with taking my Christmas Photo with the puppies,
I wrote my own Letter to Santa this year (I’ll post them both tomorrow). And as
I was writing to Santa, I remembered this darling 117-year-old letter from a
sweet young girl.
I do believe in Santa Claus. Every time I see someone
doing something nice for someone, I know that he is real – because he exists in
each one of us.
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS
By Francis P. Church,
editorial from the “New York Sun”, Sept. 21, 1897
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 West 95th
Street
New York City
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! 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 no children or 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 or unseeable in the world……
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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