New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-08

less worthy OF eccoPiAso0 80. :, =.
Mr.. Cunningham. fos instAsoe' Or ais Do110a'
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A yosus lady Of seventees. living In very Wild
and wooden part Of Wisoonin. with ~dowea
mother and house full Of younger brothers and sl''
tiers depending in coed part on her e1ernons na'
written novel, and thereupon endesvored y corrs-
,pspdence to enlist the interest and exersions OF
one of the writers for hess columns In procuring
publication for her work and consequent mue ana
fortune for herseIf The answer to her application
does not seem to have impressed her favorsoly TOR
.he writes again in the following strain:
"Mr. don't Ike You al all for writing me
sueh discouraging letter. However, pM nor De
discouraged By Il. / r,W write, ana myiwnDgs sa".
he published. ! have written stones ever IN !
learned to write and shall continue to 90 80 uniu my
hand refuses to make another letter. because lcohsde
il ~ q talent-s God given gilt. ,.~..a
"People speak of you "a one who u al tnst COCA,
kind ana benevolent but don't believe word o. II,
and never shall unless you interest yourself about
me and my book. or course, book patronlzed oy
THE TRrpUsE would be sure to sell, and you can no.
tice mine in your paper just 90 vel a. not yos
choose to be obliging," &C., &c
Not for the benefit of this young lady L. In
particular, but of literary young ladies' especially and
of "the rest of mankind generally, the writer thus
spplealed to proposes to make the above extract q
text for come brief observations, as follows:
l. Our young suthoress is perfectly right In do
ing exactly as che sees fit in the matter Of writing
or not writing, and of seeking to find utterance
through the press. She is wrong only m not
according ike liberty to her involuntary coEre''
pondent.
2. She is quite right again in not according 70
that correspondent that character Of being "a" that
sis good kind and benevolent" which she says
other people a,cribe TO him. He makes no pre'en-
son to be better than other folks and 10 incning to
the hope that those who honor him to such absurd
excess may 20 over TO the other extreme and unite
with bis many enemies in regarding him a. hard
hearted rufian and scoundrel. That belief gives
him very little trouble, while the misapprehension
that L. 90 Justly repudates has provedthe bane and
sorrow Of bis later life. 1t leads all manner OF
people who have axes 10 be ground to bring them
to him in such incredible profason that
he is compelled, from sheer physcal inability,
to cay No Gas in La casey to ninety
in every hundred of them. who thereupon discover
that his reputation for goodness, benevolence, &C.,
is all . shsm and delusion. He bess, therefore,
to have it distinctly understood now and ever
more, that he is utterly unable to lend or give
money to those who gee fit to honor him BY asking
for it-that be cannot adopt the orphans, nor edu-
cate the aspiring youth, end publishers for the
noyewriters who from day to day solicit such
trifes at his hands-thst he is BY no means sure
that he would be doing good if be were able and
willing to comply with all or most Of these ioiicit-
ations-in short, that he is not miracle of bene-
Violence but the contrary, a. l.. 80 justly suspects.
So we will consider that point settled
3. OF course, he declines once more and peremp-
torily to undertake the task assigned him by l..
He has not time to read her work in manuscript.
He does not believe that scribbling young ladies OF
seventeen are qualified to instruct or benefit the
word BY the contrary, he believes
that the publication Of their works is calculated TO
distract attention and patronage from better book
inducrg meanne.s Of spirit and sceptcism with re-
gard to the utility Of literary culture he does NOT
believe it would be we'll for L. and other young ID
dies like her TO rush ibtO fame and foftune-or even
distinc ton and cOppetence-by printing novel,
Or, TO state the case in another way-he believes
that there is God who created and governs this
world-that He has wisely and benevoently or
dained the poverty and need which exist there
in-and that He has not ordained novel-wrlting az
the way whereby misses Of seventeen may sudden
ly escape therefrom.
There is much more suggested BY L. . letter
above quoted FROM but time presses, and the
thoughtful reader may readily follow out the train
Of reflections here initiated.