New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-06
"BIOGR1PHING.'
\ YAwp FROM MARIE coRELLL
very heguiling.

from The London Chronicle.
As your columns are open to the discussion OF
literary questions. | shall be greatly obISeu 10
you if you will tell me Of any means by when
Il person engaged in public Work can De spdieu
the TYPOGRAPHY and interview. am ilt Piea
ent the recipient of daily insult from various
quarters OF Journalism on account OF Il slAdIi
.'biicu biography of me, which the publisher,
Mr.. Drane, has issued to companion similar Vol-
umes concerning John Burns Joseph Chamber
Iain Lord Kitchener. Lord Roberts. ana last,
not least his Majesty the King. None OF lltse
distinguished gentlemen have been accused IN
the press of writing their biographies theih-
selves and ISSUING them with Mr.. Drane for
the purpose of ADVERTISEMENT but this libel
Ious accusation is being freely circulated with
regard to myself. Will you permit me 10 say
that, as Il matter of fact, | made every effort 10
prevent this biography" from being issued,
and Mr. Drane. If asked. could entirely confirm
tits statement. Asking a solicitors advice on
the subject told. IF the biography does
not give publicity to anything false or iibelious
YOU could not successfully take exception TO IL
in any court of law l shall be glad to learn
if | can success ully take exception in n court
OF law" to the false and ibellous' statements
made in certain quarters of the press with re-
gard to this matter such statements can
certainly be proved beth damaging and inJuri-
count OF the career OF my kindly and popular
neighbor Sir Arthur Hodgson. in Birrning-
ham paper. Am to suppose he wrote 1t MN.
self, and had il inserted advertisement 7
Has Lord Roberts found ii necessary to take
the name of Ernest RUSSELL and write his own
biography for the benefit Of Mr.. Drane? Were
accused. l should be served and deservedly so.
with endless writs for libel. Personally should
Ike To be told how to avoid being known at all
save by my books-for. the Court Circular"
ol.gingly says of me, 'It would be much better
if she could sink her personality altogether and
let the public judge of her simply and solely by
her writings" This is precisely what have al
ways desired. but apparently this is not allowed.
II | refuse to grant Interviews they are
straightway invented on hearsay; and. though
| decline to be photographed, fancy" likenesses
of me constantly published. q have a scrap
book containing various portraits of myself
which, thank God. not me) If travel ten
miles distant ! reported having high
times in Italy and the Riviera" and quite
recently was accredited with the ownership or
a. house in Venice with garden covered with
vines" where | wrote The Master Christian"
If you, sir. will give any talisman Of pro-
lection against this wholly undesired. vulgar and
Objectionable notoriety, l shall forever be
grateful. / cam IT very we'll live altogether in
and refuse to any human creature.
hut matters stand lowing. l suppose. to the
smart" jOurn lists greed for "copy') l can
neither walk, drive, talk or entertain friends
without being made the subject Of a paragraph.
by which the paragraphist possibly may make
half a crown. / do not grudge him Cor herr the
money. but l would pay more than dozen half
crowns to be iet alone. MARIE COItELLl