False Statements of the New York Sun
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Excerpt from False Statements of the New York Sun: Concerning Gov; Hayes´ Letter of Acceptance Refuted On the 9th of October, 1876, I placed the original of the following letter addressed to me in the hands of Mr. Thomas B. Harrison, of this city, desiring him to procure its timely publication from some respectable House against the then approaching Presidential election of November 7th. With his habitual diligence and conscientiousness, Mr. Harrison sent it next day to the Messrs. Harper, with a note requesting them to signify to the bearer when he might call on them again about it. Upon reading the note they seemed pleased with the message, and said to the messenger with great civility that they would further communicate with Mr. Harrison directly. No word having come from them within nearly three weeks, the same messenger was despatched on October 26th, to inquire, when Messrs. Harper told him "That the manuscript had not been reached yet in the course of examination;" and then returned it. Upon this Mr. Harrison sent the MS. to the Editors of the New York Times, and accompanied it with a written request that they would let him know their intention about its publication, or return it to him, betime. The person who has that matter in charge at the Times´ establishment happening to be absent from his office, the messenger left the two parcels with a subordinate in it. He went thither again from Mr. Harrison some days thereafter for an answer, when the chief, who was at this time present, first looked about as if in search of the MS., and then said "That he could not find it; had no recollection of having ever seen it; knew nothing about it." Further inquiries proved fruitless: and it being at that hour impossible to obtain a duplicate of the letter and print it elsewhere before the day of election, it thus remained unpublished. Nor could Mr. Harrison recover it after the election had taken place, notwithstanding his repeated endeavors to that effect - even though he furnished the Times´ Editors with a memorandum stating the manuscripts title, date, number and size of pages, with other particulars, in detail. I confess that I committed a great error in not having kept a copy, or rather the original, of the letter with me: but considering the very strange manner in which the proprietors of the above named establishments behaved in relation to it, I requested and, not without difficulty, have at last prevailed upon its writer that from his notes or loose sheets, which I presumed still to be with him, he would re-write it, and send me its duplicate. This I have now received and, for my own satisfaction, have caused it to be set in type, and a small number of copies printed with this narrative prefixed, that those who read it may know the facts and circumstances under which the hereto subjoined letter, not only was not published during the Presidential campaign of 1876, when I intended it to be published, but disappeared altogether. I cannot forbear observing that the reason alleged by the Messrs. Harper for their three weeks´ delay in examining the MS. is absurd, and therefore incredible; unless one takes it for a fanfaronade, to let people imagine of the great heaps of MSS. which they had to inspect in the order of their reception - first arrived, first served -; as if all the writers on subjects relating to the Presidential contest in 1876 had sent their MSS. to the Messrs. Harper, each hoping for the high distinction, to see his own preferred, and honored by their types. But, even so, they could not be excused. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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