Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-21

Special Correspondence.
z ONDON. July ll.-Before this let
ter is printed, probably, one o.
the most popular Meccas OF the
thousands Of American literary
ruprims who visit England annually
viii have been sold. Stoke Park "h'ch
includes stoke Pogis where Gray be-
gan and finished his immortal "Elegy'
IL to come under the hammer on June
q. and there IS much interest 10 see
who the purchaser Of this historic state
and literary shrine viii be. or course,
however. the coming change Of owner
ship VIII make no difference IN the adj
mission ~ visitors 20 the famous
country churchyard" where the Elegy
was composed and where It's author lies
buried
Meanwhile the story Of Grays long
association with Stoke Poges is being
recalled 10 was boz l1i2 that his moth
or took up her residence there. but since
that time the quaint tWo-stOried house,
with It's porch and ola world gardcn,has
been greatly altered Still, even as u
exists today. 90 is easy 10 understand
why the srot should De so singularlY
| favored by the muse. Gray had been
there Only q few days when the poetic
/ inspiration seized uron him and he
| wrote his code TO Spring. This was
soon followed by his "Ode on a Distant
| Prospect of Elton college which can
/ be- seen from a spot near the house
/ The famous riegy was begun az stoke
/ I'm the same year. laid aside FOR seven
| years. taken up again at stoke, rough
| ly finished az Cambridge, and finally
given the polish of perfection at STOKE
/ in 1850.
10 hts connection with stoke is due
/ another 81 Guy's poems In a hn'
| ola Tudor manor house there dwelt
| Lady Gotham. something Of a literary
/ lion hunter. a species 81 which Gray
/ shy and retiring had "a great horror
| She was not a bit shy herself and Wa'
/ determined % make the poets ac
| QualntaMce. She importlned Mr Purt
l clergyman 40 stoke. Tor an iuiroduc
| ton. but ou The ground that hts Owl
I acquaintance With Gray was a yerl
4 slight one Dee shirkel the sp1usioility
But she discovered that one o. he
guests Lady schsub. knew lld'
Brown. and that this Lady Brown en-
ioye1 the felicity oi knowing Grey 'h'
made this lu excuse ior calling on hln
without an Introduction They be-
came quite good friends afterwards
and LADY Gotham tried 70 marry th
pccf 90 her uece-at any rate. he %
the Idea that some such plot was afoo,
Cray c0mmomoratoi The Circumstance
OF his Introduction 90 Lady Gotham %
the Long story and put poor Purt
name lu d. TOO. That So moriine.
and annoyed the sensitive clergy maj
/ that De dies Of smallpox shortly after
wards
Because ~ its literary associations
Bath IL one of the English cities mos
visited by American travellers. an
/ Henry Tieldlrgs house there win b
more readily identified by future Wis
torg because of memorial table
which was unveiled this week by 81
Arthur Conan Doyle Widcombe Lodge
as the ola house Is called. was occu
pied hy the author ~ Tom Jones
from ls3S 20 1852 during which year
] Fielding mixed freely with the fashion
able folk Who 'hr0ugci the ballroom
of Bath one OF bis friends Their
was Ralph Allen. the man who revo
lutioniEei th, English postal service
but who is better assured o. immortal
ity. perhaps. as the original OF sQuir
/ Allworihy lU Tom Jones. In un
/ yelling the Fielding memorial, Cona
] DOYLE rem rkol iocularly that II Bat
placed "a tablet ou every house iu whic
q celebrity had dWelt. IL would be a.
most spotted city in Europe
The attempt io establish more cordla
relations between England and Ger
many. by inviting % lot Of Germal
Journalists % London. has led 10 som
researches as io the beginning Of Jour
nallsm boz Germany There as IN mos
European countries the FIRST newspape
appeared early in the seventeenth cen
fury the pioneer being a bookseller q
Frankiort-o who brough
out the frsi number o. the Franklin
ter journal in 1915 The htst Germai