The New York herald., 1872-09-07
LIVINGSYONES HANDWRITING
What the Herald Has Proved
and Why.
An Array Of Fac-Similes and q
Mountain Of Proof.
Another Letter to John
Livingstone.
AMERIoANIsMs AND sooTTIoIsMs.

AMERIOANISMS AND SOOTTICISMS.
The accumulation Of convincing evidence laid
0efore the pubic needs no confirmation after the
certificates OF identity OF Livingstone's handwriting
In his letter to the HERALD The puerile idea OF
comparing the chirography Of Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley
with that OF Lvingstones letter to this journal
originated 1t Is to be hoped in laudabe desire to
prevent any imposition being practised upon the
HERALD and through the HERALD upon the millions
who read 1t. The humanity OF this desire Il
thoroughly appreciated, and although the enter
prising medium through which 1t challenged public
opinion proves to have been egregiously
mistaken, there is nothing easier than
60 credit the Sun with the highest and
purest OF motives This being done auec eDssston,
1t win be in place to recall the stand of the HERALD
throughout the photographic controversy. Serene
In the consciousness Of right, 1t calmly reprinted
che SUMS stanley-Noe fac-simile, about which so
much had been said, and deliberately repeated It's
active contemporary's humanitarian question
about the alleged similarity between the two styles.
The three Jnc-simt1es were engraved according to
the same process, and all taken from manuscript
letters but the HERALD smiled under every inch Of
tts surface at the idea that Stanley wrote more
than two OF them or that Livingstone
wrote more than one. The family, the
friends, the government of the great
explorer did all the rest that the HERALD required.
More smiles, always kindly ones be 1t rememberedl
II was always small matter, this thing OF Noe and
the humanitarian contemporary, but a great cause
has often been temporarily ruined by o mere pin.
prick maliciously and dexterously administered,
and the HERALD with its seper ctoi1dns reputation,
could not allow even pin-prick.
Among the letters received on this matter at the
HERALD office, the following will show that fur
ther demand for proof is made even by true be-
uevers:-
MORE KNocK-DowNs WANTED.
The tens Of thousands Of believers in Mr.. STAN
ley's great work are anxious to see fourth Jac-
st1ste OF chirogfaphy IN the HERALD. Give us an
other "knock-down argument for the doubling
written before Stanley's discovery, and let 1t be
one respecting which there can be no doubt as to
own hand. Your readers are impatiently awaiting
soon as practicable. NJ. N. Id.
In reply the HERALD respectfully refers an. N.
N" to the accompanying pages:-Gentlemen came
forward with perfect Willingness who asseverated
unhesitatingly their beliefs Mr.. W. F. stearns was
the drst, and the first and last page OF Of the
letters which he received nom DR.. Livingstone, and
which he kindly placed at the HEBALDs disposal is
reproduced by the engraver's skill to-day. DR..
straznicky Recording Secretary OF the American
Geographical Society, was another He placed in the
EDITORS hands another letter. the first and last page
OF which the engraver presents In t0-day's HERALD
Also From England came number OF the London
Graphic which had presented to the English public
facsimile Of the Doctors authority to Mr. Stanley
to act In certain regards This has been accurately
transferred to q craven plate and chal enges the
American public herewith. On the opposite page
<vno iya of lrot and linn
paragraph Of Doctor Mvingstone's letter to the
HERALD stands forth. These four specimens OF the
Doctors handwriting cover a space Of nearly ten
years. The American Geographical Society's
letter was written In 1852, the letter to Mr..
Stearns In 1866, the letter to the HERALD In
1871 and the authority" to Mr.. Stanley in 1872.
The closest examination Of these is invited. They
are the product OF one hand and one only.
Experts will md occupation in 1t for hours for
days; the general public will be satisfied at q
glance. The conclusion In all cases will be the
ssme-the man who wrote one wrote all; that man
Dr. David Livingstone. Certificates enough have
been poured in upon to satisfy US on all points.
The '.fancyographers" who played such tricks with
the explorers discoveries have been rebuked; the
acute mare's-nesters who objected to his "Ameri-
canisms" have been nattened out, from the
great champion OF ''twaddle" and the hero
Of "skeedaddle" to the "bulbousbelow-th the
rfbs' brigade. The nameess herd who OBJ
jected to everything which struck their whim,
the selferected guardians of great mans morals
humor and family expression have collapsed unac-
countably. But this Is not sufficient for the HERALD.
The dying out OF these short-lived wseacres would
only give negative victory; hence the series Of
Nac-stntles in the HERALD Of to-day. The enemy
must not only be broken, but "be ours"
The question Of the explorers use OF American.
lsms and Scotticisms has been pretty well venti-
lated; but another piece Of proof is furnished in
the subjoined letter to his brother,
Livingstone's "Sereed" and ssSkedsddle."
STEAMSHIP THULE, at Sea, January IL, 1850.
MY DEAR BRoTuER-The last letter l got from
you, with the enclosure OF money, / for
warded at once to Janet, with q request
that she would send q kind answer to you
In return. was unable to write myself at the
time, and, though have three months at Bombay,
had the same excuse;
and only now, when on u
my way to Zanzibar, ! r<4h
have leisure to give Y
you "screed," and
fear it may be the last " N~JOOV
for good while to come. m
The vessel in which sail III
was one OF Sherrard Os-
borne's late Chinese feet, and 1t is now going as
q present from the Bombay government TO the