New-York tribune., 1874-09-19
MRS. TILTON'S LETTERS.

rpov call attention TO the difference of between
Mrs nltons letters written before her confession
OF july g. 1870 those written after -as VIII be seen
by comparing the extracts quoted lin section III from
the correspondence published in The chicago Tribune
with nv wts letter from Marietta Ohio, 10 her mother
In brooklyn This same difference is In all Mrs.
Itons correspondence subsequent to her concession
All her letters written from Schohare In the summer OIL
1s7lof which the Catherine Gaunt letter ana other
penitenta specimens have been heretofore published
exhibit different woman from that whose portrait Is
nsciously portrayed by her hand In the cor
respondence published In The Chicago Tribune. The
early sunshine OF her life. which made golden every
touch of her pen those happier years, took perma
nent shade M date Of her confession In july 1870 ana
has since been never free cloud 1t is impossible.
for instance imagine such letter as the following 10
have written to me by Mrs. Titon as one OF tne
series In The Chicago Tribune. ending July 8, 1870;
MRS. TLroN TO HER HUSBAND.
lima. SAINT 70 me- in rorys letter. sEy rcsp1sa 81 s to
from my souls depths.
So you do not hate ioOh
Nor in all earlier period, would she have writteh
thus dated schoharie, June 20, 1871:
Ny mind no longer insists upon lonely daily wah-
derlng through my past.
Eor would she then have said che does the last
quoted letter.
The romantic love OF the sexes doth not satisfy.
Nor would she have cried out as follows, dated July
1871:
Oh my dear husband may you never need the as
cipne Of being misled by good woman as have been
by good man.
Nor could have In happier days penned this, OF the
same date with the preceding
thank you for the surerlngs of the past year. Yoa
have been my dellverer
Asa further illustration of Mrs. Ttons prevailing
state Of mind, induced by her criminal intimacy with
Mr. Beecher by her confession thereof to her husband
and by the shadowy memories that followed these SAD
facts 1 win mention incident: One day IN OctoDef'
1871, during wearisome railroad ride, beguled my
self with the composition little poem. which sont
In pencil to The Golden Age aud which appeared In
that paper under Tthe title OF Sir MarmaduAes mus
ings." containing the following stsnEa
1 Iclasped a woman's breast
As II her heart knew
or faneied, would be true
Who proved-slas she tool
False like the rest
On my return home after publishing the above was
assaed by Mrs nlton, who with tears In nor
eyes reproaohed me saying 90 Theodore you might
as we'll have called me by name" Meanwhile had nos
been conscious OF any oense against my wife In tho
aboye publication because public alusop had yes
conneoted Mrs Tltons name with Mr.. Beecher's. Tna
Woodruff story, which first did this did not appear i
more than year afterward namely, Nov. 2, 1871!
In still further illustration OF the exctape state Oh
Mrs Trltons mind at any public anusion friendly OF
otherwise 10 the scandal which Mrs Wooohuii pu"
shed may mention that shortly aiter ths' puS"os
ton prepared for press the GARD known as .he e@
| ter 70 my complaining Friend" 1 wrote IL In nay
90, n-as.,ca ana submitted 10 10 her Judgment. She
the card aud seemed pleased and SATISFIED IL
wss designed to throw shield OF protection over her
s9an. MIA woodhulls attack! Although that card has
been extensively published beg the favor of repro
duons it here IN order that its kindly phrascooU
,ovard my wife may carefully weighed and In order
aI.o that the commont which abe subsequently, mado
upon IL may be understood The card was Is follows;
THE COMPLAINING FRIEND CARD.
| . No. I74 LIvNGsroSsr.
| BRooKLYN. Dec ~ lsIl
| good LET
of bad advice You say, How easy 20 give tne nS "
the WICKED stasy. and taas saa Is tpsav~F ouss'NA