The Sun of New York from Tuesday, September 3, 1833, is the first issue, "Number l," of the newspaper. It was published daily by Benjamin H. Day, printer, and has been reprinted by later publishers on various anniversaries: September 3, 1853; 1883; February 27 to March 7, 1931; September 2, 1933, and others. Some of the reprints bear notices to that effect but others are without such notice. All reprints examined have numerous minor variations from the original. The Library of Congress does not have an original from September 3, 1833. A comparison of the several reprints in the Library of Congress with a photostat copy of the original belonging to the New York Public Library shows that they differ in various details.

The text of the original reads as follows:

• Page 1, column 1, last line of the masthead has "Three Dollars" capitalized
• Page 1, column 1, second advertisement, line 2, "steamboats" plural
• Page 1, column 1, second advertisement, line 7, "Captains" plural
• Page 1, column 1, third advertisement, line 5, "Catharine" not "Catherine"
• Page 1, column 1, third advertisement, line 10, "hour" singular
• Page 1, column 1, fourth advertisement, line 2, "master" lower case
• Page 1, column 1, fourth advertisement, line 4, "captain" lower case
• Page 1, column 1, fifth advertisement, line 2, "Tallahassee" not "Tallahasse"
• Page 1, column 1, sixth advertisement, line 1, "packet ship" not "Packet ship"
• Page 1, column 2, next to last line, "trible the sum" not "treble the sum"
• Page 1, column 3, second article, line 2, misspelled "charriot"
• Page 2, column 1, paragraph 3, line 2, "almshouse" lower case
• Page 3, column 3, third advertisement, "J. Bleeker & Sons" not "J. Bleecker & Sons"

The reprints differ from the original in some if not all of these details. Their monetary value is very small.

Source: Information Circular 17 (Revised 1955).

The Library of Congress does not have an original, but does have a photostat of the original (online catalog record).