Editor’s note: Virginia O’Hanlon, 8, wrote a letter to the New York’s Sun editor, and the response was printed as an editorial Sept. 21, 1897. Francis Pharcellus Church’s piece has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial.Dear Editor:.
In honor of Christmas, today we re reprinting perhaps the most famous editorial published in a newspaper. The words of Francis Pharcellus Church that appeared in an unsigned 1897 editorial in