The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-23
DR.. ENGLISHS DENIAL.
False Account Of His Rela-
tons With the Poet Poe.

There has been going the round of the
papers lately a story taken from the
washington POST in regard to DR..
Enslish's relations with the poet, Poe.
1t has evoked the following denial from
DR.. English in the Newark Daily Adj
vertiser:'
To. The Daily Advertisement your issue
OF Monday last you quote from a preten-
ed interview with me, printed recently In
garbled and falsifed account has been
reprinted by other Journals. yours IS
the first in which I have seen It re-
Deated. 1t contains language which |
never used and statements which / never
made. and / am pleased to have this OPP
portunity to give it a positive contra
diction.
1t is said that the conversation detailed
occurred in, the lobby of the House OF
Representatives. at half past Z O'Clock IN
adiournmenf Of Congress. was not IN
the House, nor about it at the time men
Tioned. | left at 5 O'Clock In the evening
thence-not feeling well-to my lodgings,
where remained until the next day. an
hour before 1.-THE final adjournment at
noon. The statement that nay on the
sofa during the interview, and looked UP
at the portrait of Henry Clay. is on a
piece with all the rest. My friends Know
that for the last three years or more.
/ have been unable to recognize the
most intimate acquaintance at a distance
Of three feet, and to haye e. seen the .b port
midway i'm the corridor-through several
feet of heavy brick wall. would be a very
happy fact to mes # fact It We're at az.
Now, as to some of the statements
made by the interviewer. l never safd
that Poe would borrow a watch and
pawn 1T. or had borrowed teWelry from
any one and not returned them, for |
never heard such a charge made against
him. nor would l have believed itf l
had. Poe's main faults We're reckless
~ cCarfinn yvhnn nnprU and IAN I'm rent
constitutional ignorance-when necessary
\ drove him-of that nice sense of right
and wrong, which should animate lat every eIy
obtain personal property under raise
~pretenses and convert to his own use.
there srew is b mo ey WIsTati he ! 81 ap Iei1s S Ia eri done as
after our rupture ! have no knowledge.
but I do not think that he ever mate
| rally changed.
Nor did l assert that Poe was a for.
| or a dandy What I have often said
wes, that if at any time he had a siovene
" look, 1T was during or after one OF
was occasionally. and only occasionally,
| subject. Nor did / use the word thrash
ing or ''whipping'' in connection with
Poe or anybody else; These who know
| me, are we'll aware that such words are
not in my vocabulary. Poe die, come 10
| my chambers and ask for the loan OF a
1 posed attack. I refused. having none.
| and one word brought on another, ana a
| scufle ensued. in which | lost my, tenn
per, and. forgetting that mad a neay "
! tention of mischief. married his race.
This only occupied a few minutes, and Is
never recalled by me, except with resfel
that 1 should have, lost my temper.
Nor did l say THAT Poe had received
five dollars for each stanza OF me
| Bells" I learned from John sartain
/ that he bought the poem stanza ny
shanza, and that, after paying .for f., shs
| stanzas, which was all right and proper,
| as they were we'll worth 1t. But the
| amount as five dollars. What he did
| paw I do not know positively, but | 90
| know this, that John Sartain-who stlll
Eyes !, as :. 2 Z p bls aasling gen With authors.
AS to the language attributed 70 me IN
the article. it is as much distorted as tns
rest. and in every instance conveys
| sentiments not mine. | presume tnat
w9ll have to endure tbs kind Of thing
more or less. Since the revival OF an
| old song which l unhapply wrote !ifty-
have died twice over-I have been annoy,
| ed by a crowd Of eager reporters an9
autograph hunters. The latter got rid
of because my sight FORCES me TO Wrzse
| take no for an anrwer. IT they wouad
report. me accurately I would have no
affection to answer questions ABOUT any
thing, even as to what l had in my din
ner bot the day previous. but | do, cb-
iect to any man or men drawing from
he + recesses Of his or their imagtnta,,
ton statements, without f~oundatrqn, and
then attributing them to me. IN me
main these distortions are harmless, put
a. in this case they are likely to 90 IN,
iury to the reputation of the dead, !
nIlofed he invented sayings about Poe,
will give this contradiction a ptace III
ne THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.
- So & ,Ja1 10 1909