Recent Accessions The Sun file starts with January 1835, although the paper actually commenced on September 3, 1833. Since the Library already has The Sun for 1834, this means that there is practically an unbroken file here from January 1834 to November 30, 1949. So far as is known, this is the only complete file of The Sun for the 1849's and 1850's in existence. The World file begins with June 14, i860 (Vol. i,No. 1) and is nearly complete through the last issue published, February 27, 1931. The file of The Evening Sun commences with the first issue, March 17, 1887, and continues through the last issue with this title, September 30, 1920. On October 1, 1920, the morning edition of The Sun was discontinued and the evening edition took the title The Sun. The Sun was founded by a printer, Ben Day, and was the first successful penny paper published in New York City. Day's paper, tabloid in size and filled with spicy bits of police-court news was frankly designed to reach a public which was not attracted to and probably could not afford the staid six-cent sheets of that day. The famous "Moon Hoax," the first installment of which appeared in The Sun of August 25, 1835, sent the circulation skyrocketing. The "Balloon Hoax" written by Edgar Allan Poe appeared in the same paper on April 13, 1844. In 1868 Charles A. Dana acquired The Sun and made it famous for brilliant and amusing news pages and editorials. Probably the most famous editorial ever written, Francis P. Church's "Is There a Santa Claus," appeared in The Sun and is still widely reprinted. Mr. Edward P. Mitchell succeeded Mr. Dana as editor and carried on the Dana tradition. The Sun passed into the hands of Mr. Munsey and later was acquired by William T. Dewart. The World, starting as a religious paper in 1860, had a rather unsuccessful career until it was purchased by Joseph Pulitzer in 1883. Pulitzer had advanced ideas about how a newspaper should be run and soon had The World making money. He was famous for stunts such as sending his reporter Nellie Bly around the world in a little more than 72 days—a record for 1890. He later engaged in a circulation war with Hearst. In the 1920's The World had on its staff a roster of brilliant literary figures such as Franklin P. Adams, Hey wood Broun, Frank I. Cobb, and Deems Taylor. These voluminous newspaper files add tremendously to the Society's already vast holdings of New York City newspapers and will be a rich source for historical research—all the more so since the gift included three card indexes (425,000 cards) covering a portion of the files. The first index is to the morning edition of The Sun and its successors from January 1, 1913, to March 18, 1924: The Sun, 1913-1920; The Sun and the New York Herald, 1920; and The New York Herald, 1920-1924, when the Herald united with the New York Tribune. The second index is to The Sun for 1924 and 1925. And the third is to enlisted men in the U. S. fighting forces and to subjects of World War II mentioned in The Sun. Louis H. Fox, Newspaper Librarian 253