The New York herald., 1922-03-26
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT
By ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE.


the. sympathies Of a female conf |
dant, who bore distinct resem
blance to the Miss Frisbie Of Pen
Dennis" To her he sent the letters
that were to be delivered to Mrs.
Brookfield. Eventually there was a
kind of reconciliation and Thack-
cray was again received at the
Brookfield home. The letters are
interesting, chiefly because they re-
veal the petty and irritable Thack-
cray, who rather Indignantly fol-
lowed Becky Sharp through the |
pages Of Vanity Fair" not because |
s5s was a lady of questionable !
ul-sals, but because she was the
daughter of poor painter and
French ballet girl.
DROBABLY no more extraordi
/ nary love letters were ever
written, by literary man or any
one else, than those Of Bulwer-
Lytton to Miss Rosina Wheeler, who
became Lady Lytton. Miss Wheeler
was somewhat older than the novel
ist, who fell violently in love with
her at their first meeting, and be-
gan a correspondence that Is un-
paralleled in extravaganza. Like
the imaginary letters of Henry
James of Mr.. Bradfori's fancy, and
like the letters of Thackeray to Mrs.
Brookfield, these letters were nor
produced until ten years after the
death of Bulwer-Lytton and year
after the death of Lady Lytton. In
them Bulwer addressed the lady as
Poodle" and signed himself
, Puppy" or 'Puppo." Here is a
, sample: MY Adored Poodle: Many,
| many thanks for 90 darling letter.
: Me is so happy. me is wagging my
: tail and putting my ears down. Me
e is to meet 90 tomorrow. 0 day OF
& days! / cannot tell you how very
: very happy you have made me! No
l. my own love, don't come before IL;
i but really ! shall meet you. Oh
q darling of darlings. o zo'
e love of loves, me is ready to leal
r out of my skin for joy! Adieu
T. Twenty million kisses"
A GAIN Bulwer wrote: "And 8
II they dressed my poodle in blac
and white? o. zoo darling! Hoy
like a poodle. And had 90 oo'
:. bootiful ears curled nicely, and di
: 90 not look too pretty, and did nc
e :, all the puppy dogs run after o
= and tell 90 what a darling 90 was
? All, me sends 90 nine millio
kisses, to be distributed as follows
SOC. 900 for 90 bootiful mouth. 25f
!. 900 to 90 left eye, 250,000 to G
:. right eye, 1000, 900 to 90 dear nee
:, and the rest to be divided equal
- between 90 arms and hands. TIE
!. million more kisses, my own da
ee ling, for your letter which is ]u
= arrived. It is read. and now. b
or fore it is answered, take the folio'
10 ing (marks of kisses). Pray, da
no ling, shall we not kiss prettiiy
,er morrow, darling I'D (a) (r) {
an ID (n) tg)? Adieu, by own RoS
us my life of life, very poodle of We
% poodles, adieu! Adieu, 90 oy
ey. idolatrous puppy. Ever my deare
adj dearest, fondest, kindest, bootif
ay, est, darlingest, angelest poodle.
of Own Puppy
she
~ THE aftermath Of those amazi
use i letters? 1t is long story o
s"' not a pretty one, bnt it may
summed up in a.. anecdOte. VIII
VI Collins's "The Woman in Whi
On was one of the most successful OF
=" serials. The archvillain of the st,
~ (and why have we no adequ
archvillains in the fiction of
- day?l was a certain Count Eos
After the mystery had been clea
MP Collins recei;ed letter fror
lady. She began by congratulate
him somewhat coldly upon his s
-, cess. and then said. But, Mr..