The Washington herald., 1912-09-28
ANOTHER s|CKLEs
LETTER PUBLISHED
Son Gives Out Missive from Aged
General to New York Society
Woman Telling of Affection.
EsrRANeED WIFE DENIES STORY

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through the publication. by his SON
Stanton Sickles. of another letter from
tho aged warrior to woman prominent
in society, alleged to have been his
affinity during much Of the twenty
seven years in which Gen. Sickles and
| his wife have been separated.
| The letter, which follows, Is alleged
by the son to have been written by
his father to the woman in question
while Mrs. Sickles was In Madrid In
1897 Young Sickles' reason for making
public these rather notwithstanding
of his father is because the general
has given as his reason for refusing
| to live with Mrs. Sickles the presence
of a son in SPAIN Mrs. Sickles and
Stanton Sickles declare that the boy,
Miguel, was the posthumous son of a
friend. and they deny In detail the
charges of the old soldier.
The letter to the mysterious society
| woman, claimed to have been written
by Gen. sickles, is as follows:
.. April 10. 1897.
Darling: Am I never to hear from
you? I have written you SO often and
as yet am without a word from you.
You know very well that il you were
suffering and asked me to write you
could not refuse. You once had a
heart: is 1t turned to stone, or is 1t
dead? l heard from your mother before
she sailed. At last We have got rid
OF sickles, and 1 am glad of it.
"Have Always Loved You"
Are those your sentiments? Tell me
and 1 viii tell you what to do. Oh
you do yourself and me great injustice
in treating me as you have. 1 love you,
as l have always loved you, and believe
me, you will find that love such as mine
is not to be thrown aside with disdain
or indifference. You will before long
you, do as You have always done, and
all will be well. II all your old love
for me is gone, are you not still my
friend? Next to your love, your friend
ship is the most precious gift you can
bestow upon me. u have not only given
you all my love for ever so many years,
l have given you besides the truest
friendship any woman has ever received
from a man. You have been my true
friend. Friendship like ours, which made
US both so happy. should not be dropped
in a day or cast off like a useless
garment.
Believe me. life has no blessing like
a friend. You alone have known my in
most thoughts and feelings-my real
nature. You have been, you are to-day.
my idol. Let me then beseech you in
write to me and tell me that every tie
is not broken. This will be a dear con-
ISOLATION to me now, the consolation
you said you would pray God to give
me. How can you ask God to give me
what you refuse to give me?
Il beg you to write to ME. 1 am hold
ing off death with one hand. while I
am writing my memoirs with the other
hand. In the chapter in which l shall
describe you, l want you 20 appear as
l have found you, the one happy vision
of my life. without a blemish or a fault.
II this is an illusion. let me keep 1t
to the end. Be yourself, dear, Is you
have always been to me. be my friend
l ask no more Fondly, DAN"
Young Sickles declared that the at
tachment between his father and this
nounced that it had been broken up by
him in 1896.
Woman in Terror.
The New York society woman men
toned by Stanton Sickles, son of Maj.
Gen. Daniel Sickles. as having caused
the long estrangement between his
father and mother by entertaining a liza
son with the aged civil war veteran for
eighteen years, desperately frustrated |
attempts to obtain an explanation from |
her to-day. The woman remained all |
day in terrified seclusion in her home |
in Thirty-sixth Street. near Fifth Ave |
nue..
Once, when coaXed to the phone, she |
denied her identity.
mo, no; this is not the mistress of |
the house." she cried. 1T is only a !
maid. l tell you I am not Mrs. -. |
No: 1 haven't the slightest idea what |
you want. 1 don't know why the name |
Of Mrs. should be mentioned in |
with that of Gen. Sickles /
have nothing to say about it-nothing |
at all
The woman in the case was married in |
March, 1899. to a prominent member of
he Union Club. whom she met in Rome.
According to Stanton Sickles, her in
imacy with Gen. Sickles did not con-
inue after December. 1886. From that
ime until her marriage the young wom-
IN. who was frequently spoken Nof as /
,ne of New Yorks most beautiful wom-
N, lived abroad. AS relative of a !
Iew York woman who married an Italian
prince, she passed several winters in
Rome and was presented at the Quirinal.
1t was announced to-day at Fifth
Avenue, where Mrs. Sickles and her son
ave been domiciled, that both had left
he city for few days rest.