New-York tribune., 1885-02-01
MISS COLERIDGErS DEFENDER.
FATS WITH THE LADY'S BROTHER

MISS COLERIDGES DETENDHh
HE DEALS WITH THE LADY'S BROTHER
To the razor or The Trtbnme
SIR: friend has kindly forwarded me your re-
port of Mr. Stephen Coleridge's speech 1t was
conYersation-not, q speech-Edl ut Buffalo Oh
the Sd inst. Had this speech been addressed TO an
English audience, who knew the speaker shouid
have thought it supertuous to take any notice OF
il. Asit is, l must ask you to allow me To cor
rect two or three OF Its moro particularly giarhs
| falsehOOds.
The first is that his sister left tho mouse os'eusi-
blv 70 visit some friends and refused to comc back
That it should be from MI stephen Coieridge Oh
all persons in tho world, that such statement as
this should come is fact as curious as 1t Is cnar
acteristic Almost curious, and quite as charac-
teristic as the contrast between tho highly dis
Greet silence maintained IN England. and tho gush-
ing frankness with which the world Is taken into
confidence from the safe vantage ground OF another
hemisphere.
The facts are these: For some three years before
the date of his sisters expulsion from her fathers
house. SIr. Stephen Coleridge, his wifo and child
had been pensioners in It, under circumstances
which he may perhaps prefer that should leave 1t
TO himself to explaih 1t was from their misbe-
havor i'll that position that some OF tho most
worrying of their sisters minor home troubles arose.
Lord Coleridge rcfers when IN the memorandum
alluded to in W. S. Coleridges speech he writes to
mo as follows: $50 far any discomforts at home
have affected my daughter, they are in process of
removal, according to my PROMISE, and mnst very
coon disappear" On the Sth December Miss
Coleridge whose health was seriously suffering OBJ
tanned her .hers permission 10 visi old friend
of her mother until the I'd Of January. the date
ultimately fixed for Mr.. and Mrs. stephen Cole
ridges departure from the house. On that day che
was TO havc returned: but oa the l1th OF Dccem-
Der shs received Mr. Bernard Colc1dge's libellous
letter and or the lith and 18th the two letters
from Lord Coleridge Of which | herewith iucose
copies The one lAl as will lie seen. threatening t.
forbid her return. tho other lBl forbidding 1t.
Mr.. Stephen Coeridges next statement is: my
father urged hor to take up her residence with any
people whom she might choose. that were in proper
social position and offered to make arrangements
for that purpose but she refused tho Offer This
also is the exact reverse of fact. The offer not
refused but accepted Tho lady selected by Miss
Coicridgc being an old friend OF her fathers. aud
the sister of OF our most highly respected stacs-
men. But the conditions insisted upon were
such AZ 10 make the arrangement impossible. not
only to Miss Coler,dge but to the lady herself who
was consequently forced to withdraw from it,
Er dno disco omnes With regard to the payments
4 the lst OF every month"; 4 NAV JUST however
say that have before me list OF dsics furnished
| 6y Miss Colerdge's solicitor, and tnat the only
mouth iii which any payment was so made was the
inonth--of April! Tho other payments vary
between the ID the 7th the 18th. the 22h. and the
! 3Otb. After which. think need hardly trouble
| you with further analysis of Mr. Coeridge's
forced, even now, into again entering
| into such domestic details as CARR ages.
and suitable maids" but should be sorry 80 to be
| OF course # il be insisted upon that the laundry
work of the Coleridge family be performed in pub
| lic am unfortunately compelled Just now, TO
assist, TO some extent, in that unpleasant opera,
ton. But really think Tie world mas already had
quite its full share of edifcati0n in that way. and
am by no means eager 10 furnish y with more. Mr..
! notice. They have already been and apparently
will have again to be- quite sufficiently dealt with
tiss"hsis that MF % coicridso Is honestly Incapable Of
imagining that any man could possibly refuse an
| offer Of $500 year, merely on the ground that
| the terms on which it was made were insulting.
But here il one little concluding paraR raph his
speech, which really deserves just word or two !;
What strikes me- he says. is that the American
against this man without attacking our sistor.
| None of us went into the witness-bOx because as
serp Now have not N gssf had tho pleasure of
visiting the United States since some two three
years before Mr.. Stephen Coleridge was born, but
changed during hat time # they fail to appreciate
the exquisite hum0r of statement such this. ap-
pended to direct attack upon his sister, half a
some three thousand miles from any possibility
| of exposure by the ohivalrous - gentleman % y
| whose brOthery delioacy fOrbids him to risk his
ISLANDERS in the wtness-bOx Your 0bedicnt servant,
| London, Jan. 10, 1888. CHARLES ADAMS.
Co. AL Royal Courts of Justice, J
| 13 December. 1888.
NY DEAR CHILD: Your brother showed me on the way
here letter OF yours to him. IN which threaten to
do what am sure Ia your sober serious mind you can
But IL you really should bring our whole family into
the position which you threaten will be simply due to
cation ,asns Ses.scn u.s. Your aaoctonato father.
'tThat is to say. tohand his letter to NAL
M DEAR As you have done nSss warned
stated In my last letter. to which refer Won aud hv
which must stand. ~ ~
to live separately from solicitor will be instrcied
to communicate with you to the settlement WHICH
shall make upon You; and any matters of business
between us Will Tor the future DC transacted through
C5isnedD CoIERpGE
supposing tho writer to be tho man who was
who, after the famous lawsuit, WAS reported
By cable 10 have married her At the time Of the trial
tho cable dispatches uniformly called him f.
" Adams or Frank Mastcii Adams. although
at the same tmo The st. Jamess Gazette called
him c. Warren Adams. and The Londo" Worlc
Charles Warren Adams The writer Of the above lctte
signs simply Cha& Adams, although on the day 1t wa
received In our London mail, tho cable announcing
a new suit against Lord Colordse hmsel
gave the full Charles Warren AdsuA We win no
attempt to answer tho question, Whats In . name
but will simply remark that what's over pame In thi
case IA a very punRonk letter,-.Ekl