The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-08
Letter That Was Turned DC: Down w
BY Leading Boston
3 Newspaper.
J EDITOR or THE BOOK TALKS " S
Miss Kate Mason Rowland Has
a Few Remarks 70 m,
Maks.

Journal III July last. For reasons not
explained, the Journal did not publish
ii, but simply ignored It.
4 TO the Boston journal:
IA Mcssrs. Edtors,-Afy attention hns been
called to clippings from, two papers OF
June g7th one in the Boston Journal
headed "Thc Real Lincoln TO be Sup
pressed" in which you give the Title
Page" of tho little pamphlet and inform
tho public OF tho Crusade instissted by
the G.. A. r., and conducted by you, ana
which, 1t is your boast, has resulted III
the removal of this book for all tlrnc"
from the Cambridge Public Library, to be
Z followed by its removal from all the
n,,blic libraries of the state of Massa-
chusetts. The agitation, 1t seems, was
begun by a. G. A. r. veteran who, see
ing tho pamphlet In the library at Soner-
yjlle called the attention of the Mayor
to its existence, land the Mayor ordered
II. removed from the library and destroy
ed
The other clipping is a dispatch from
Richmond, Va, headed Twill Burn a
< Book Retlecting on Lincoln-Work OF a
&Virginian to be Taken from Shelves OF
Cambridge Public Library" This gives
n me; the information that tho offending
volume will probably be publicly btrned,
and that efforts will be made by The
valiant hosts OF the G. A. r. to have the
@ hook removed from other northern ilpra-
ries and destroyed =
The editor OF '"rhe Real Lincoln now
addresses YOU, and asks for, space IN
your columns for some comments on TINS
58 action Of your paper, of the g. A. Il.
Posts and of the enlightened c'stodians
g Of your public libraries. OF course,san
auto da fe is very effective as a punish-3
81 ,n,1ent inflicted upon obstinate herctics-
y and books-but it is not an argument.
# You characterize the pamphle us q
64rScurrilous attack on the great "ht
President a. vicious printed attack on
4$ incoIn..r But who WAS responsible for
q ilese scurrilities, this vicious attack?'
Who was the real. authors Of 'Thc Real
& lincoln 2" Why, Lincoln's friends, ms
+ intimate associates, his frlsomes elllogists
\ r ramon Herndon and others. All that
Tr Minor has done is to collect III one
book what Is scattered through many, az.
58of them unimpcachable authorizes. mo
z that Is your answer to Lincoln's friends?
yon make none You tacitly ncRnow-
,.drc that the task is mpossblc-that
the dark blots and stains ul'sn inc cha =
< acter of Lincoln arc indelble' Inc onlS
reply is to burn the book that orlnss
tban, 10 light. This has already been
49, IN me case of Iincon's own
H .thestic "lit1lc book. as related IN La
X mons lincoln published in 1872, ana a
careful attempt to suppress the "rcve-
l,tions,. of Lanlon was made In 1873 ny
thc duplication OF the "I7ecollections or
Ahaham Lincoln edited BY Dorothy
I,amon. This book has been substituted
forTthe original biography By Lanon ana
II, revelations and .'ghastly exposures
as uerndon callssthcn, are left out, with
M animation that the earlier Work ever
existed. .,.,.,, !,
The little historical pamphlet, when II
was my privilege to edit Tor IN! i'ie ma
ne late DR.. Charles l.. G. Minor sofa
rapidly. and when the cdition was -
hansted the publishers determined 70
s bring out IL second one In Dook lorln
Or. Minor, in the meantime, had coliect ~,
mich additional material from 'hc VIZ
cial records in tho War Depat ln,e'it s..e
nther sources, and had just completed ,ne
preparation OF tile manuscript "nen ..'a
untimely death occurred. me stIni'
s,nd enlarged edition of THE Real LIN,
nn,n +" edited bysIyr. Mipor's brother ana
sister and skern. Of my preface, ana
President Lyon G. Tycr'S artlcle' tieil
came out. and copy OF ~ WIS scn' ~
Mr.. Berkeley Minor to the Cambridge ~
hrarv fear il has escaped your at
tantion and that Of the trustees, us YOU
onlv give the title puge of the pamphiet.
embellished by portraits (not In the orls
tnaN OF two of the G. A. r. commanders,
DR.. Minor, in his preface TO the 7eco,"
edition of '"Ihe Real Lincoln" says: 'Ob-
iection has been made to the first edi-
lion of this book that nothing IS loiihu
from the author himself. only whsit other
people have said and written me au-
thors purrNx- has been to submit inc YES,