The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

NIeWtu MIN III Tie Ttuuest VI ~ q
York paper. obtaining information
largely on the ground OF old acquaint-
ancc that Lowell had with the elder
Hawthorne. Can you let inc have in a
word or two the subject matter OF the
interview? G. 8. X.
In the late summer or the fall OF 1886
Lowell was interviewed in a fashion thu
described by his biographer. Horace II.
| Scudder, IN James Russell Lowsl"
UIoughton Mimin. Boston, 1901. page
336 ct soq.):
"When Lowell went abroad In the
spring Of 1888 he had been asked to give
the address in November at the 25Oth
anniversary Of the founding Of Harvard
University. The thought OF Vt harassed
him during the summer.
His equanimity was further shaken
by u disagreeablc experience when the
son of an old friend. making a show OF
a friendly visit. led him ON into dis
course about England and English af-
fairs. and then. relying on his memory.
decanted the conversation into an article
for a New York paper with which he
was connected. III he had reported
what ] really said. instead of his YER
sion OF II. I should not feel 81 bitterly
was Lowclrs comment, and to a friend
he wrote AS FOR - he kas that
] didn't know he was interview, - me
To any sane man the misunderstanding
stun he has made me utter is proof of
f.. ] say made me utter deliberately
because. though he has remembered
some of tho subjects ,none 90 my choos.
iug) which we talked about. he has
wholly misrepresented tho tone and
sometimes falsihed the substance OF
what said. The worst Of
IS infideli'y q mean to keep my
t%einper) Is thN It is like a dead rat in
the wall-an awful stink and no cure"
There is reason to believe that this
description Of the affair is unjust to the
interviewer. \ letter from e. s. X. to
Mr.. J.. n. Sanborn of Concord. Mass.
brough; a reply which Mr.. Sanborn has
kindly given THE srS permission TO
print. Mr.. Sauborn says;
~ remember the interview very we'll.
because IL wa the subject of tho last
conversation with Lowell. whom 7 had
known very well since my college days
when his nephew. e. II. Lowell. killed
In the civil war, introduced me "a hin
in his study at Elmwood.
Eve came into the Boston and Albany
station together ON" day from fur-
ther west and he from his daughters
house at Southboro, and We got into the
| same can. llt ltttl Jew ilstu lsAlclA ape
pedred IN the EoStor Globs. for which
Hawthorne asked it-l.owell not know.
ing that he would also priu, 4. IN tn.
New Work World. He had talked freely
with Julian as the son ~ his old friend
Hawthorne. and NO: Imposing that il
would 60 back to England from the fio>.
ton daily. He though. he ought 10 hay,
been warned by J. that II was to appear
also In New York. That WAS the breach
' of EnneiIttsp az which M. ttnft'u in,1
But when he cane 20 see IL In cold ;yps
lac no duul' saw that he had spoken toe
freely ~ tho Queen and ~ her Encl,sl
public characters. uf whom. a 4
diploma;Ist aud a su->. ~ III. best Eng
fish houses. he ought 20 have Kept 81
leuce in American U~ewspapers.
Taxing advantage. therefore. - IN.
~accuracies and infcrences IN Is version
Of the talk ne djsc.aimcd the whul.
which he had a right 10 do Flu 7 haN,
no doubt. knowing how freely Lowell
talked when with friends. that he sal,
In substance what j. reported FOR tn,
lad. who had been "A pupil or mine a
Concord for two and a half years. htC
n good memory and great facility VIII
the pen. 1: annoyed Lowell greatly. an,
he expressed that annoyance TO me II
our drive FROM the Old station to hi
Boston address on Beacon street"
, In a subsequent letter Mr.. Sanbori
says:
Il regretted tina Julian should hay.
taken such a liberty. hu; wondered tina
, Lowell. with all his experience NJ III,
world. hould not have seen that n pub
~'ication % such matter, even AZ Gran
berry Centre. would re,ppcar IN tn,
most public music halls Of fame, H.
had read Virgil and knew how
ENiemplo Iihya magnas +, NHlt ror 4Ih-.
Fams. NAHUM qua non sliui ,clorIUs u''um
Mobilitate viget. Nireeque scpuirt cunio.
/, is plain that the ara,r carries q les
son both tor interviewcrs and for publ
men.
can YOU inform me. or can arv %
your readers. where a little hrocnur,
having a LIST Of the four hundred an,
comments, can he obtained II was go
up ny the late Ward McAl.>tcr. william
X. Henry and Clarence II, LeNcy. s.
An eNpert on these matters inform
Ne Mr.. McAllister's only boob wa
Society As | Found ~ The varlou
lists Of the -four hundred compiled som
years ago were all unauthorized and inn
perfect, They were not to hc drp-nd,,
on then and are, in addition, "ut ~ ia,
now. | am quite certain that there wa
no such bookle, as the one mentioned. ="
Kindly tell me on what week day Apr.
.. 1915, feli. T. W.
on Friday.
In reply n the assertion that ht
l.5oo Americans fell In the War Of ia
Revolution u. T. NJ, who inquired as I
;hr truth OF TINS IN Questions and A.
sNcrs fu. March -. may consult Towns
end ~. - Indies, which gives a
luCompi"f" list Of losses. In adding u
the column of killed. I find Il approx
mate 1850, with 1000 wounded an
missing Several battles are omittc,
particularly that Of Long Island. wher
10000 men were engaged.
THOMAS J. BURTON.
Daniel u Tompkins was vicc-pres
lent Of the United States In 1870, Il,
fore that he had been Governor of Ne
York. Can you or any ~ your roadci
inform M what his middle name was?
j. g. HENSON
Search In a dozen or more places h.
not disclosed that he had any. Even h
contemporaries do no, seem to give hi
more than tho initial. We have know
Of some instances where there was
middle letter but no middle name. Re
hapS This was one.
Pleacc give me the address OF the re
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