The Washington times., 1921-08-24
HOLLAND
SAYSHE WRITES
H|SOWN VERSES
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No. "a Earls Courg Gardens. Lon
don. S. W.. 6:
In his letter to the Gastonia Ga.
zette he says:
las you have Joined the happy
throng OF charlatans who seek to
libel me with absurdly false and
grossly unjust attacks in the Amer
lean press, and have dedicated the use
OF your columns to this foul purpose,
TO the extent of printing, among
other things. forged and poorly
written letters, and attributing their
authorship to my pen, you not mere
ly confer upon me the right, but
you impose upon me the duty, Of
reply.
81 do not mean to say that this
was done through any personal NAL
ice on your part. have no cause
for thinking so. / am aware that
you are not primarily responsible for
their appearance, and that you are
fulfilling the duties OF journalistic
office In posting your readers CON-
corning the movements. or what you
think to be the movement Of emil
nent men.
II state emphatically that every
thing you printed was a lie in real-
ity, for truth admits of no mltiga-
tion."
The Gazette had reprinted from
the New York World Miss Vedder's
charges Of plagiarism
You must observe that I am not
writing in any heat at ALL" Hope goes
on, "and 1 am telling you something
of my likes as well as my dislikes. For
a part of 1919 and 1920 ] made my
residence in New York, which fact you
have already proclaimed to the pant
ing public. During those rose-colored
months ! did numberless things, some
of which were creditable. wrote
some OF my best sonnets and made
some of my worst enemies. And some
OF which were necessarily other than
because 1 lived to the
fullest, as one should do everything
that one does, and because met many
wicked people.
81 owned a book store there; I had
a manager for II and with the money
that came regularly from the business
and my other properties. lived very
II not extravagantly and
Hope answers the charges made
against him and counters. He asserts
that letters and verses he sent to a
friend were stolen and thieves at
tempted a Matchmaking game. A drug
bill charged against him was for
liquor, not perfumery. he says.
About That Check.
"A week before I left New York I
clearly remember writing a check in
payment of a bill I owed. The day Of
my departure I closed my accounts,
10 n. l,-a vi,,r, haI 81
ing them into negotiable papers. I
assumed. and had every right to as
sumo, that my checks had all been
paid. and II one was not promptly pre-
sented the fault was not mine any
more than theirs. Il
THE firm did not notify me OF the
checks return, and they had two. II
not three, addresses through which
they could have done so. ] state, and
anyone who is honest enough to want
to, can verify my statement that
when this check was written there
were funds in the bank to cover It,
while I still owe the amount OF
this check, I strenuously protest as
a gentleman against authorizing my
New York attorneys to pay II before
the firm has retrscted the villainous
and apolosized or ex-
planned their motive for attributing
to me, or causing to be attributed to
me, the authorship of a stupid letter,
one Of their own forg-
cries.
"I think can trace the beginning
OF these malicious manifestations 70
an attempt to blackmail made on me
in August, 1920, when was threat.
ened with the publication of certain
letters OF mine, harmless letters OF
poetry and passion, that had been
stolen from the friend wrote them
TO, and which. by the thieves In pos.
session of them, were thought 10
lend themselves 70 misconstruction
They offered 10 return them to me