Show WILLIE LLIE GILL vs TO MARK TWAIN TC EDS As AB mark twain with intrepidity I 1 wont wo nty lay impudence dares to call DO roo a thief I 1 beg the iho favor of 0 a a mall spice in your journal to 0 o k the popular author upon what he awes kill his accusation that mark twain Simu Sal nuel cl L clemens by charles warner dudley wrote tho the navel tile tho gilded ago I 1 am well wall mare 0 hint the tha novel ham hail been widely road read I 1 am well aniro and I 1 a am in loo also aware that lewt there hero aro are numbers or of people who popular na as mark twain is i ilo do not place him on the llie sam fmc a level with tho the into lamented charles dick oni althou gh ho he hi bas with quoit luot brals worth y perseverance ceif cilly in tho the chat char actor ol of colonel boilers Soll cg to tol fol low tho the style of the immortal novelist DOvo lint as a cloedy as possible it las bai been decided in the ho E liili courts that tho the author of a knovel novel is 13 powerless to prevent any ono one dramatizing hi bis work norl the judges field that bat to restrain a dramatist it WM was OR on the be put part of tho the novelist nove litto to provo prove daro ago and do diall hided that a man dramatizing a novel not only dil not commit damage but considerably oona enhanced the value of tho the novel by giving it a widespread wide spread whoa when I 1 dramatized mark kwains twains gilded Gilde dAge ago I 1 knew nothing of the not act of congress based in ia 1870 riving giving to the iho novelist coToli Bt tile ri right lit to dlamar izo as at the time I 1 hat had 1 only boen been a resident ot of lloil country tor for a low few months inon llin consequently in to place my dr deallia allia oil oa the iho atigo I 1 hid had no idea 1 of robbing r mark alark twain of an n infinitesimal portion of ofilio the fruits euils of his bia io under tho the circum mark twain bin bag boon perfectly tilled in ap eipl ving lying for an injunction and hid hall I 1 buawa known 6 or of tile tho ex ci laic isten nei cla of tho the law or of 1870 thoro there boull live boca no occasion ocea sion tor for mark twain to apply appy for it as I 1 rhoud never have dreamt ol of attempting to play the ibo di drama virria but mark twain is ia far from tit birog ing jati fied in applying tile terni thief hicl I to a mao man without a beyond a doubt naother ho he was waa correct or not in ia so BO doing when mr twain talks about thieving it il is in necos eiry eary that willie GU gill should remind liim him that but for dickens happy idea iu in conniving conc iving the character of wilkins Mic micawber awber mark twin twain would not now bo be reaping a golden harvest out of tho the character of col sellers whom bo be lim hoi put forth as an original conception of his bia own I 1 am sorry that I 1 havo have in tho the smallest degree decree upon the rights of marl mark twain and I 1 am baili more orry gorry tl t find that it gentleman of uch such vast conceptive power us 8 mr twain possesses evi dencell in the chir acler ol of col aul sellers could coald not have hit upon a onoro novel and original orien expression of opprobrium ill in that of thief yours re spectrally WILLIE gilt SALT LAKE feb WS |