, 1879-03-18
ANNA DICKINSON.

A Jtepiy tn tho Now York TrbuDe's Avor-
n,tntA About Her Tiny, "Aurel1an."
New Yol,K, 3, II. 1s1D.-To the Editor ef thu
,Sun-SM: On my return to the city iron, n
fortnght's work was assallrd by an army OF
questions concerning certain statements III re-
cent elIusion vi the 7rituas, which anl Too IT,
nornnt to answer. As nn humble seeker after
both knowledge aud truth may beg that YOU
will do Inc thu kindness to reprint the vexn!;
proh1en.-slncc it ia allied to un ftcm tint has
appeared In your own wltlcly.rcad coumns,-to-
getcr with tle queries That fret tic oil account
OF my inability to give them satisfactory nn-
Ewcrsi
As 10 statement: "Miss Anna Dickinson read
her play, entitled Aurclan,' to largc COM
pany at tllc residence ot literary frirnd III
this city few nights since. THIS piece ia
written in prose, md consists Of serIes Of
levc, dialogues, III which all the pcrsoua
i,alk alike, ant' MI tulIs like The writer.
production, should 1t br produced, might, ncr~
l'aps, serve good purpose IN DIRECTING attcp~
tlon to ths s'oquent, pictorial, ilulninnl've
Ware, once renowned, but now aln,Gss forcut~
ten. The statement ntcly cirwl!ute that John
Mccullough had acceptcA Miss Dlekinson's
,.AuFsltan.' an! would net III It, proves to have
As 10 query: VIII the writer Of tic above add
TO the favor of his dispassiouatu criticism the
Information, as to Wien, wllorG, nnl under wl,nt
eonditfol's he lscame fauiltar with the play of
so.lal Interest. In my further words tint nny
have TO be spnkcn upon this 1natter. Also, will
In dcigl. to cast Enmc light uoon thu "Rool
nurF0sGn tint would l1o served by It's pro.
ttnei0n sin directing attention 10 tho eloquent,
plrturlal, illun,nattya novels Ct 'Aurolian' u.Hl
'Xunobia,' by William Wurc, orcu renowned
but now almost fOrgutten Is ha ihtur rested,
pcret'ancc, In the rrissut,lg and fresh sula OF
tcn' hooks! or,is tic ''gooa. purpose" to bc
served that Of tllr drawing of u vlEurnr,s con-
trust l}clwccn the "icyrl prose" CONCEDED to bo
that Of tlle writer Of tle MAY and the "elo-
Suent. pictorial, illuninatse" Ea9!I,l Of Mr..
Ware, ur the other contrast TINT might easlty be
male-tll0ugil | ecu not TO wliRt :" purnose"
gnod or iil-bctwcen tue historical characters uf
thc novels md tho tmngnury characters Of thu
playt 1n tile first. M 4surcliao. larsh, severe,
md midle-aget', cl'iehy u'G'getl IN thu work ot
prraccuting. Christians, . Zenoba, mature slml
lnutruI,ly, the mother of five Ernwn.up children,
ono VI wllu1,i Is tue wltc 0f the RutnAn EnlMror.
III 1l'e second. an Aurclian Ut c!ght-an-thirty,
gcMcrous, nrlc'lt. free. usnI nallv IN luye With
il Icno!a,. who IL young Anl unmarried, nlni
who dies In trying to saya lrr lover foc. Ex-'
psnnatoIs ntc IN 0ricr.
Concerning t'lc t'nal sentence, 1.-THE state.
mcnt lntcly cireaIatcu tint JOHN Mccullough
hal accepted Miss Dlck!ns0lI's 'AurrIap,' glld
WtIuld uct in It, proves to IIaye bccu incurrect'
I Will ask, How 'proyes"f
letu Is IL ttytt understanding in Tho ol!co os
every Now fork newspaper tint | .nysclf AM IT,
sponsbu for tic paragraph They hnYB published
clnbodYin. ]hts safue ''statcnlent," In tat of
thu Tribune this Understanding Is not trcit, hut
absolute. Hero md now, over my u,yn name,
rctent tic nsscrtun tltAt tlU play ot AurcIlas,r
Was written vt tt'c request vi L0hu Mccullough;
wns written for lilal; was ucccptcd by htM; was
to have been prudscct! by him; ant tint, with
out thu resembling of that pralnisc Of production,
or word 1t HeEattnn froln llftn to mo OF that
ncccptauce, the plaY was taken from him by mo
for sufficient tailsc.
Heartily A.lx!ous to lead M orc into error, I
ask te crttlr Of the Tribune to ul tp his ilauy
services ihn erUwn!ll. 0nu Ut "proYlngn the
truth. nn whichever side U! this "stntGIHcl,t ~
Ills or ,n!nc-it ,nay bS iou,Hl, Respectfully,
ANNA u, UlGElhst)S,