1. The writer of the editorial was most likely John Mitchel, the Irish Nationalist, grandfather of John Purroy Mitchel, now Mayor of recent You are able to City. It’s been related, however, towards the famous John M. Daniel, in those days proprietor and editor from the Examiner. Whether it’s more in design for Mitchel or Daniel, there’s a positive change of opinion among individuals capable of judge. See “Editors of history,” a lecture delivered by Judge Robert W. Hughes, themself an editor from the Examiner, prior to the Virginia Press Association, June, 1897, by which he states that John Mitchel grew to become among the editors from the Examiner within the summer time of 1864, before which period Daniel and Hughes wrote the editorials. Judge Hughes adds, “Mr. Mitchel authored together with his usual brilliancy from that point to the finish from the Examiner, and did almost all of the editorial work—Mr. Daniel writing hardly any, and that i but rarely and briefly. Indeed I had been very rarely in Richmond.”
John M. Daniel died, following a lengthy illness, March 29, 1865. Regarding the “end from the Examiner, [”] Judge Hughes states: “Richmond was occupied through the Federal army on Wednesday, the next of April, 1865, which day the bigger area of the city was burned, with it the guarana plant from the great newspaper.”
2. This really is, without doubt, an exaggeration. The Job Letter was initially printed, to date out of the box now known, within the New You are able to Sun, on November 26, 1864. It’s possible the Sun’s publication would be a reprint from another Northern paper, but the likelihood is it had become an authentic publication. See Report Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 177, note 1.
3. The only real Richmond paper which reprinted The Job Letter, “with a particular awful reverence,” was the Sentinel, on December 15, 1864, in the daily edition, as well as on December 16, 1864, in the semi-weekly edition. The Richmond Whig had printed the letter on December 2, 1864, but without comment. For that Sentinel’s panegyric, which turned on the ire from the Examiner, see report Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 180, note 5.
It’s interesting to notice that well-liked themes the merits from the Duty he Sun has it, “that they’re correctly taken proper care of.” Within the 4th sentence the Monthly reads, “in answer yours of March 26, 27, and 28th.” The Sun reads, “in answer your letters of March 26, 27 and 28th.” Within the eighth sentence from the Monthly we’ve, “if no, simply tell him plainly,” etc. as the Sun reads, “if not,” etc. Again, the specific old Puritan within the Monthly is typed properly “Davenport,” rather of “Devenport,” because the Sun prints it.
9. I’m in financial trouble for any verbatim copy of the important letter (italics just like within the College Monthly ), to Mr. Robert E. Kelly, of Jersey City, Nj. This is actually the letter republished by Dr. Johnson, within the Richmond (Veterans administration.) Occasions, December 19, 1900. (See publish, under V. p. 14.) The College Monthly (two bound volumes) was discovered by Mr. Kelly within the New You are able to Public Library, following the author had searched for for this useless elsewhere.
The College Monthly printed Dr. Jones’s letter without comment.
It’s interesting to notice this letter was printed within the existence-duration of Mrs. Lee, who died in nov 1873. During the time of the publication of the letter, Mrs. Lee and Dr. Johnson both resided in Lexington, and there might be but little question the letter was seen by Mrs. Lee. For whatever reason, which isn’t apparent, Dr. Johnson signed the letter together with his initials—“J.W.J.,” and didn’t give his address, Lexington, Veterans administration.
10. There’s no evidence the Duty Letter was printed within the Northern papers “in the first times of world war 2.” To date out of the box known the very first publication was at the brand new You are able to Sun, November 26, 1864. And, as printed within the Sun, The Job Letter, although it proposes to have been discovered “at Arlington House,“ doesn’t purport to have been discovered with a “Federal soldier,” though it was most likely the situation. See report Virginia Condition Bar Association 1914, pages 176, 204.
12. Some comment has been created on the truth that, reported by Mrs. Lee to Dr. Johnson, General Lee stated he didn’t “think” he authored The Job Letter, rather of claiming, absolutely, he didn’t write it. Dr. Johnson obviously anticipated this comment, and endeavored to forestall it by insisting that the language of Genera Lee were “a quite strong denial for him.” And Professor Joynes states (letter towards the author This summer 3, 1915), “As towards the ‘psychology’ of Genera] Lee’s phrase, ‘I don’t even think I authored it,’ there’s no psychology inside it, except General Lee’s natural modesty, which, possibly, he didn’t regard the issue as worth more emphatic denial. He was snappy then considering more essential matters. The saying appears in my experience quite natural for General Lee underneath the conditions, for he most likely gave but little focus on the issue.”
Presuming the word “think” was utilized by General Lee, and remembering that in speech much depends upon emphasis (e.g. “I do not think I authored it”), the easiest way, possibly, to interpret General Lee’s words would be to look into what sense these were taken by Mrs. Lee, and whether General Lee acquiesced within the repudiation from the Duty Letter.
Applying these tests we’re relayed through Mrs. Lee it had become upon the statements of General Lee and Custis Lee the Examiner repudiated The Job Letter. General Lee certainly acquiesced within this repudiation. Again, there might be without doubt that General Lee didn’t repudiate The Repudiation Letter, probably compiled by Mrs. Lee. And, finally, Mrs. Lee declared, emphatically, to Dr. Johnson (see under V. publish, page 17): “It is an extremely good letter * * * but General Lee didn’t write it (italics mine). Will it be doubted that Mrs. Lee understood General Lee to deny writing the letter?
Because the above was written, I’ve been informed by Captain W. Gordon McCabe (October 8, 1915), he has examined, inside my request, all of the letters of General Lee to Mrs. Lee in December, 1861, but finds inside them no allusion towards the Duty Letter. Captain McCabe is custodian from the Lee Letters, and proposes, as quickly as possible, to write a volume titled “The Domestic Letters of General Robert E. Lee.”
14. It might be requested how did the Examiner know these statements of General Lee and General Custis Lee? Without doubt, I believe, through Mrs. Lee. The authenticity from the Duty Letter had most likely been discussed within the Lee family from the moment of their very first, December 2, 1864, within the Whig. There was ample time prior to the editorial within the Examiner, December 17, 1864, to see General Lee, and reach the conclusion the letter was spurious.
It might be added that there’s every need to guess that John Mitchel, presuming him is the author from the Examiner editorial, was persona grata in Mrs. Lee’s drawing room. His was a fascinating personality. He would be a man of character and skill, who’d endured much for his enthusiasm being an Irish patriot. He’d espoused the reason for the Confederacy and the three sons all fought against around the Confederate side. The oldest was wiped out at Fort Sumter, the youngest at Gettysburg as the second lost his right arm within the battles around Richmond. For full information regarding John Mitchel’s adventurous career, see Dictionary of National Biography—“John Mitchel.”
16. It’s probable that regarding this Dr. Johnson misinterpreted Mrs. Lee. She informs us, on-page 17 of her “Memoir,” known above, that her ancestor, John Custis, resided at “Arlington, around the Eastern Shore of Virginia.” As well as on page 52, she states of her father, G. W. Parke Custis, “Mount Vernon ongoing to become his home before the dying of his grandmother, as he commenced the erection of the beautiful mansion at Arlington, an estate of the 1000 acres left him by his father, and laying upon free airline side from the Potomac, opposite Washington City.” It might appear the estate of Arlington around the Potomac was named for Arlington around the Eastern Shore of Virginia which the “beautiful mansion at Arlington, opposite Washington City,” was known as “Arlington House” to differentiate it in the estate. In span of time it was found unnecessary, and both estate and mansion were alike known as “Arlington,” without adding House.
17. Dr. Johnson is within error in stating that in the date from the Duty Letter, April 5, 1852, General Lee what food was in West Point. See report Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 196, where it’s proven that in April, 1852, General Lee’s home was at Baltimore, and the man did not go near West Point until September 1, 1852. See even the Repudiation Letter, II. ante, p. 5.
19. This is actually the very first time (in 1872) that Dr. Johnson asserts, using the emphasis of italics, the Duty Sentence “did” exist in instructions from General Lee “to his boy.” This statement he three occasions repeats, in 1874 in the “Reminiscences of General R. E. Lee,[”] in 1900 within the republication from the College Monthly Letter within the Richmond Occasions (See under V. publish, p. 14) as well as in 1906 in the “Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee.” The only real change produced in the sentence is the fact that in the books Dr. Johnson omits the language in parenthesis “at another date.”)
In report of Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 209, the author has expressed his surprise that in neither of his two books does Dr. Johnson deem it essential to cite any authority for his assertion the Duty Sentence was compiled by General Lee, nor does he give any information about them, past the words “in instructions (in a different date) to his boy.” The conjecture through the author in report of Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 212, note 36, the lost Johnson Letter, now found, wouldn’t give any causes of Dr Jones’s assertion, is confirmed through the items in the Johnson Letter as printed above.
The conjecture from the author in report Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 211, that Dr. Jones’s statement is made around the authority of Mrs. Lee, real or supposed, is strengthened through the fact, then conjectured however known in the Johnson letter, that Mrs. Lee caused the omission by Dr. Johnson from the Duty Letter in the MS. of his 1874 book. It had been surmised out of this conjecture that Mrs. Lee consoled Dr. Johnson for losing the job sentence (to date because the Duty letter was concerned), by stating that she thought, or thought that General Lee authored that sentence “at another date inside a letter to his boy.” Regarding this this author thinks that Mrs. Lee was mistaken—if, indeed, she was properly understood by Dr. Johnson.
In report Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 214, it’s mentioned that, when the Duty Letter were genuine, the association of sublimity with duty wouldn’t be original with General Lee. Towards the two quotes there succumbed proof this statement, I’m now in a position to give a third, getting permission to quote from the letter towards the author, May 22, 1915, by Dr. Albert Lefevre, Professor of Philosophy within the Umversity of Virginia:
Your quotes, for the finish from the address, from Lavater and De Quincey, recommended in my opinion that Kant more often than once connects “duty” with “sublimity.” The very best known passage is his apostrophe to duty, which begins: “Duty! thou sublime and mighty word.” Kant’s utilisation of the term “word” interested me regarding the Professor Joynes’s comment that Lee would hardly used that term.
20. This, to date when i know, may be the first suggestion of “The Compilation Theory,” examined and rejected through the author in report Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p 198. As showing this theory is untenable, attention may certainly be known as to 3 details:
1. The Examiner Editorial, in line with the statements of General Lee and General Custis Lee, pronounces the entire Duty Letter a forgery and ridicules it inside a manner which may be equally offensive to General Lee if the sentences organized to scorn have been compiled by him within the Duty Letter, or perhaps in every other letter, or letters.
2. The Repudiation letter within the Sentinel, from “a source titled to understand” (doubtless Mrs. Lee), repudiates The Job letter in general, and states: “There is certainly not about this that may be acknowledged as genuine by one acquainted with his (General Lee’s) style.” Why reconciled using the Compilation Theory?
3. In the letter towards the Richmond Occasions, in 1900, Dr. Johnson makes this accessory for his letter of 1872, within the College Monthly. (See V. publish, p. 14):
“I keep in mind that Mrs. Mary Custis Lee * * * stated in mention of the this letter (The Job Letter), that we had place in my original Ms. It’s a excellent letter * * * but General Lee didn’t write it, and that i want nothing to enter your book which isn’t perfectly authentic.” Why reconciled using the Compilation Theory? And Mrs. Lee will not make any exception from the Duty Sentence. It might appear that Dr. Johnson should have misinterpreted Mrs. Lee, whether it was on her behalf authority he four occasions declares the Duty Sentence “did exist in instructions from General Lee to his boy.”
21. This is actually the lost letter of Dr. Johnson that reference is created in report of Virginia Condition Bar Association, 1914, p. 209, note 32. It had been discovered by Captain W. Gordon McCabe, who, inside a letter towards the author, May 22, 1915, thus describes the fortunate event: “Just after finishing your Address, an inquisitive factor happened. I required lower my Long’s [‘]Existence of Lee[’] to determine just how he’d quoted the letter and lo! there on p. 464, was the letter in our friend, Jno. William Johnson, towards the Richmond Occasions, that we authored you I had been i saw. I’d work from the Occasions, and tucked it into Long’s book, coupled with didn’t remember about it.”
The Johnson Letter towards the Occasions, which both Captain McCabe and Captain R. E. Lee appreciated seeing, is principally essential for its incorporation, entirely, of Dr. Jones’s letter towards the College Monthly, in March, 1872, that is printed under IV. ante, p. 8.
The invention from the Johnson letters heightens the mystery of his mere ipse dixit, with no authority or explanation, the Duty Letter is “unquestionably spurious.” When his first book was printed, in 1874, he’d already printed his letter towards the College Monthly, and given indubitable proof the Duty Letter was spurious. Why did he not provide the substance of the letter, as he printed his book, just 2 yrs later? Again, he publishes exactly the same letter, by incorporation, in the letter towards the Occasions in 1900. Why did he not provide the substance from the letter in the second book, printed in 1906? He’d two times printed elsewhere, his causes of pronouncing The Job Letter “unquestionably spurious.” Why, in 1906 a minimum of, as he should have been conscious that his ipse dixit hadn’t convinced the general public the Duty Letter was spurious, did he not put an finish to trouble, by disclosing his reasons in the book? Like Falstaff, his attitude appears to become: “If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I’d give no man grounds on compulsion.“
The only real explanation of the mystery that implies itself (whimsical, possibly, towards the author, is the fact that Mrs. Lee, while consenting to using her name inside a fugitive letter towards the Monthly, by inference towards the Occasions, forbade its use within Dr. Jones’s first book: and that he respected her wishes when publishing the 2nd, thirty-2 yrs later.
23. “Have not thought it worthwhile to openly (italics mine) deny its authenticity.” These words of Mrs. Lee would be the open sesame as to the required devote the Lee family, once the Duty Letter attracted their attention (See under IV. ante, p. 9), soon after, without doubt, its publication within the Whig, December 2, 1864.
Because the Whig printed the letter without credit or comment, so that as its future celebrity couldn’t then happen to be predicted, it’s probable the Lee family will not have taken the problem, openly or else, to deny its authenticity, if it was not reprinted within the Sentinel, with your eulogistic comment. Naturally, General Lee didn’t want praise that he wasn’t titled also it was made the decision in the household Council, to allow the general public realize that the letter was spurious. But exactly how could this be achieved? It had been “not thought worthwhile to openly deny its authenticity” but information was handed John Mitchel, without doubt, which he authored the Examiner Editorial, which Mrs. Lee appreciated, in 1872, and described properly as “denying the authenticity from the letter, and criticising, with a few severity, its style.”
However this wasn’t considered sufficient. The laudatory comment had made an appearance within the Sentinel, along with a letter to that particular paper was made the decision on. But should the specific author be signed into it? It had been made the decision the editor ought to be requested to print a Repudiation Letter from the “Source titled to understand,” which wouldn’t be an open denial through the Lee family.
But by whom was the letter written? All of the evidence suggests Mrs. Lee. She’d proven ability like a author within the Memoir of her father, already known. (See under II. ante, p. 5.) She was fully aware, in 1864, of which was happening, and far thinking about the exposure from the forgery from the Duty Letter, out of the box proven by her conversation with Dr. Johnson, in 1872. Besides there’s language within the Repudiation Letter much like her statement to Dr. Johnson, in 1872. Thus within the Repudiation Letter, it’s stated: “There appears to possess been no object within this publication, but to amuse the folks. To date it’s a harmless deceptiveness, yet the reason for truth needs this refutation.” In conversation with Dr. Johnson, in 1872, Mrs. Lee stated: “It is an extremely good letter * * * but General Lee didn’t write it. and that i want nothing to enter your book which isn’t perfectly authentic.”
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