The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-09
AN APPEAL FROM FREE LANCE


AN APPEAL FROM FREE LANCE"
Rare Albums for Sale In Behalf OF .
Noble Charity.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Igenius be patience, az Button asserts, 1t must
be awarded to Mrs. Vlncenz0 Botta, who il more
than well known to social and literary circles Of
this city. Deeply Interested In the French Fair
that was organized by the women OF New York IN
the Autumn Of 1870, Mrs. BOtta, ever the GU1nt-
0dr,de Of deserving charities, determined to con-
tribute to 1t valuable collection OF autographs
photographs and sketches. Appealing as well to the
Old World q, the New, Mrs. BOtta was ably
seconded by the Hon. John Jay, Hon. John BigelOw,
Hon. J. L. Motley, Hon. Geo. p. Marsh, Madame
RistOr, Lady Amberey, many other prominent
persons abroad, and almost every lead
ing man and woman at home. Our artists,
as usual, promptly responded to the call
Jcrvis McEntee contributed q moonlight lin
OILY OF the "Ducal Paacen at Venice; James Ham,
itOn, "Sunset at Sea- which. appropriately
enough, is in water cOlOrs; F. o. q. barley, draw
ing OF IAN Indian Attacking Buffalo," quite as
appropriately In Indian ink; James Hart, rural
scene in Oil; r. Swain Clifford, ''Seal Rocks,n san
Francisco, in water colors; W. wittredge, "wagon
Train the Plains, In oil; s. R. Clifford, "Distant
View Of the Pyramids" In Oil; +. Morans, "A
Scene from Hiawatha," In sepla; Gustave Dore,
pencil sketch Huntington, two figures in pencil,
and 80 on to the number OF seventy mine
charming sketches. Then, foreign painters
in Rome sent through Mr.. G. p. A. Healy
twenty-five admirable souvenirs thirteen sculp-
tors contributed photographs OF their best statues
and twenty-five artists gave with their sketches,
photographs OF themselves. Oh rare American
autographs, with accompanying photographs, there
no less than 400. Not President OF the United
States Is absent, washington, Adams ana Jeffer'
son being present In rare manuscripts Franklin
IL there; so are James Otis, General Israel Putnam
Benedict Arnold ana Lafayette; Alexander Ham
ton and Aaron Burr lie quietly side by side. and
Clay and Webster are closer companions than ever
before. Generals and admiras are inarshalled
in battalions; washington Irving, Cooper and Haw-
thorne are made most interesting by lengthy
manuscripts. There Is Jdc-StnaiB OF the first
telegram, the gilt OF Professor Morse and there is
the first Atlantic cable message, certified to by Mr..
cyrus Field himself Poets, Including Longfelow,
Lowell, Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, Bayard Tay-
lOr, are az thick as leaves ut Misunderstanding
Poe not being forgotten taOugh his letters are
most rare-and there Is not woman OF note but
has given as much OF herself as will new from ink
and speak through a camera Obscura. England Is
generous in her offerings and beginning with Will
liam IVA bad beginning makes good
erby and BECOMES IL
John Stuart Mills discussion on education, Her.
bert Spencer's argument concerning the principles
humble ancestry, and an original unpublished
poem Of twenty Isur lines by Professor Tyndah,
whose widest admirer never would have supposed
him capable OF SO extraordinary an indiscretion.
Macaulay and Hallam Dickens, Thackeray and
George Eliot Ruskin, Charlotte Bronte, Browning.
TcnnysOn and scores OF their peers enrich the
pages OF Mrs. Botta's unique album Nor s the
Continent less lavish OF its gifts.
There ~ very valuable letter written by Napo-
leon the Great; there are mssiyes from later men,
bers OF his family, including one from Napoleon the
Hugo se Iamartine De Tocaueve. THEIRS and his
co-laborers AIRY SchefYer, Dupanloup, Father Hya-
cinthe, Henry Martin, JOmini. Sainte- Benve Bal
Guicciol Louvestre, Jenny Lind Wagner. Auber,
Frederick Bremen, Hans Christian Andersen KOS
suth, Bismarck and hundreds more follow one
another I'm quick succession. Liszt contributes
three pages OF autograph music never published
and composed expressly for Mrs: BETA iay's
sun shines. Cavour, Antonelli, Mazzin1, MaRzoni
Ristori, silvio Pellico. Aleardo Aleardi, Merca-
House OF Savoy; Garibaldi, Carlo Poerio, DALI
Ongaro. and many, many more, bring the "wo-
ton to these two great albums Of sketches and
autographs, with photographs, there Is smaller
album, given by Mrs. Jay containing photographs
box containing 43S autographs, not mounted, con-
ssting OF poems. letters, documents and other In
nal Kyrie Eleissn, by Schubert; notes by Schumann,
Mendclssohn and Weber, imperial photographs OF
the great composers. and finally there is 2 unique
Emperors, presented by the Hon. John Jay.
Undertaken as labor OF love, this collection
until recently has Mrs. Botta been willing to
slider her work completed-completed too late to
VI s u. G sSs DO WITH eaans nS
France have become profoundly impressed with
the belief that their country can only be regencr-
ated through popular education; that "what you
would have appear In the lie OF nation you must
first put INTO lis schools" Professor Hppeau of
the Bureau Of Public Instruction, who visited the
United states under the auspices OF the late gov
ernment, and wrote most enthusiastically in favor
of our educational system, declares, in behalf OF
himself and others, that 10 Is their ambition to
establish on the banks or the Seine one OF those
schools, which in all the American cities visited
by him were the objects OF his admiration and
envy 1t is to the education OF women particularly
that the efforts OF these devoted men Will be
directed for "who edncates q woman edu-
sire to establish In Paris school
for girls the American system, where
moral and religious teaching, unsectarian In its
Christianity, shall go hand-in-hand with literary
and scientific instruction, Mrs. BOlter has deter
mined to make America their lasting bcnefactsr.
from the sale OF her collection. and to the pur-
chaser Will be accorded the honor OF founding the
institution and giving 1t his or her name. Five
thousand dollars only are required to bring about a
consummation devoutly to be wished II Is a small
sum for so great treasure, and much
greater good. Five thousand dollars invested
living brains will realize more ea than legal interest
to some generous souls whose ideas Of principle
are not gagged by the standard set up In Wall
street. To hear the sound OF o New York name
from schoolgirls lips on the banks OF the Seine
ought TO be worth more than $4,000 TO q wealthy
woman loving her sex as well as she loves herself
or TO wealthy man loving that sex better than
himself Which IL 1t 10 be, man or woman,
both whoever the benefactor, may he or she
soon reward Mrs. Botta for her untiring devotion
TO Al upselQsh idea. FREE LANCE