Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-26

s1uaen. Is written all over IL Inc moment
you en,er tne IRON. o3or YOU see AZ tne PACK OF
ih;rd stor;ss ron end H. halls siia5 ,s;th hnaI
| cases. and at the southeast corner of the man
sard there is a reference library of several
thousand volumes The lower library contains
| thousands more and when I asked Senator
Sherman how many books he had here and al
Washington he said he thought he must have
in the neighborhood of IL. 600 volumes. The
mansard library is largely given up to Amer
| icana- 1t contains all Of the public documents
| since 1850 and the debates Of Congress back to
the beginning of the government
The library on the ground floor Is twenty
five feet square and the books here are Of all
kinds, from science to fiction. Two large cases
are taken up in volumes relating to the war.
One is devoted to modern science and Mill and
Spencer here stand side by side with Darwin
and Huxley. Another large section of the
library is devoted to financial authorities and
another to American biographies In looking
over the books noticed that Bryants Iliad
was well thumbed and. finding the complete
works Of all the great novelists in another sec
ton, asked Senator Sherman who was his
fsvorite author in fiction and he told me it was
Walter Scott. Throughout the whole library
noticed methodical and systematic arrange
his whole collection are bound pamphlets. a
dozen or SO being put together in each volume
and complete index of contents made to it.
VALUABLE AUTOGRAPH
In one corner of the library I Jaw thu great
'. y '"y 20" ,no
nre-proot Vau' IN wnicn .he senator Keeps ms
private papers. This vault is as big as q hall
bed room 1t 10 filled with shelves and 1t con-
ains .ens Q, !nousands OF prNase letters ana
iiteratenr Here there il : large coliect;on Of
SCRAP books running back to the time when he
entered public ife nearly fifty wears ago. and
all the important letters which he has received
during his long public career are here. Sena-
tor Sherman has been noted for knowing how
to keep his mouth shut and public men have
opened their minds to him without restraint
There are volumes of unwritten history in these
letters, and the names signed to them are those
of the great men and women in nearly every
branch of life. public and private for the last
Generation and a half. There are abont az
teen volumes. each al big az a dictionary
which contain letters mt aside principally for
their autographs. and in looking over one of
these. devoted to men who are not politicians.
CYRUS W. Field. noted Sisters of Charity. great
preachers and others
As looked Senator Sherman told me he
thought he could show me an autoaraph letter
from any noted man I should select who had
during the past forty years been prominent
either in this country or in EUROPE ran
sacked nv brain and finally asked him to show
me a letter from Francis Iieber. the noted
German scholar. 81 think have several" he
replied and with that he turned to the index
announcer volume Turned
leaves until he came 10 half a dozen letters
which Lieber had written him couoerninR the
most famous of his books.
,o,,v .x, ,,cr-
-
among the most interesting letters which
Senator Sherman has ever written are those
which he psnned to his brother, Gen. Sherman.
| and the correspondence of these two brother
Will, when 1t 10 published, be one OF the most
Saiuapie ana interesting books OF American
H,Iiv III ths Is,,er ~ ~ h uas 'sa care
| he went to West Paint 10 the dav Of his destb
| and these letters were yery full and thew gave
a picture of Gen. Shermau's intellectual and
| material life, Many of them are written in
camp, sometimes before a battle and some-
| times on q drum head afterward. All of them
are vivid with the life ana surroundings of the
general at the time and thew deal with nublic
men and matters of more than fifty ysars of
our history. One of them tells OF the first
/ discovery of gold in California and many ~
| them detail the inside history of symv
| movements which have nave, ro,.a
| into print Senator Sherman wrote or;te %
| freely as his brother and dur;no b;a yhoio
career he has vritten several ietts,s sasL t'
| him. Tbesa Ietters Cen Sherman No. "
saye in 1ssO and b;s ,.rars ;ncinda az W
81 senator SHERMAN Sror, thas ~. .o az .h;.
senator sherman has HANDED ova- al, y, Oh.
\ generars letter. 20 the ch;Idra, - O.. CT, VIC
man and II NAV he that 10Th sats iii =. ,,.ts
I Iisbcd- n i. hard N resl;zs tha ,"na ~ uD-
listed between Jobn and Wi,I;a,n T.cnrnsnh
Sherman During NV talk with the Senator 7
noticed that his voice dropped whenever he
spoke OF the general, and upon my asking
hire and hi: y S III s cor'esponaenee between
! that il was not and that he never wrote letters
tn his family hia hro<bar nxo..x ,-;.L =