| Show American Who Knew Poe Poc and Whitman lutman VI Now N ov in in Aberdeen Our London Literary Letter I Special Correspondence r ONDON Nov b There Is a 1 former for fr 1 rile mel citizen of the United L I living In retirement at nt Aberdeen who has hB Home come fascinating memo mem orbs of ot Allan 1111 Poe oe and aint uncommonly manlY Inte testing recollections of ot Walt Whitman Longfellow and other othor Ameri American can wn literary leral giants of if the tho past fai I When I I Interviewed tInt the other day by h a tentative lye of if Dr DI Robertson Weekly he asked to have hU hl nAme lunatic withheld wit but tint tho the reminiscences which h II Ia nave gave of ut the golden ago age Rg of tr trA American A literature aze n e well ivell wel worth II ci inong n tug tugS A S man loan this thle veterans youth va tas 11 in iii II Brooklyn Brokl n N Y 1 f whO his lute fathers house hou e to have beta been heena of the most mORt famous a L great resort American of at their day da Poe IOe es especially especially was Sa not nOI only anI a u ui regular visitor Wil but on such uth terms of ot intimacy with th u that he hu was In the tite habit of ot dropping in lit 1 ut nt nil ait sorts ot of unexpected In times And It Is III rather pleasant to t theAr heAr that frequent us UI were his hl visits sll those thosa friends Crl nd never Haw him hll In a IL con condition dillon raised even een the faintest even nt itt suspicion of lt the unto time when hU hil habits were erl most lost irregular l Seen from Cram rout the eyes eeM of ot a boy oy of u seven seen aa RS the tho British h Informant at then stun POt Poe proved an unusually figure Oure I I went to hInt hIm h us he says 10 Ith the utmost conOc nce anti and I have hare most inot vivid Ild recollections of ot going anti and looking up Into his huis face anti and nl pleading Mr I r Poe POI will wi you 01 oblige me by reciting ing In Th This Baven Never Nove once did dil he refuse many mal such and nd many a 1 time lint I declaimed hy by Its hoard heard The Raven Haven llen IH author In a II manner possible to tn the au thor thO alone Leaning against his hut chair or perhaps oftener pitting fitting on nn hh hIs hl knees Il I was tibIa able not only to catch the tl ery very tones tOMS of oC hiM voice vole but hut to tn now not tin Iii changing moods moo 11 11 its s r d on lute his hi ex ox exI I I re tare fare The rite impression with wills me rue today It I WOl wn the tie most mORt one could Imagine Poe hud hittl two n a very melodious voice olce which when In hi 11 wished rY had a it considerable mount 01 ol resonance He Ip would begin 1 ln and Ri hut but butI I 1 cant describe his hs elocution Hw lie lt wrote the tue poem and ns M he be recited it tt lie he h he e mcl to b be giving to every ery line lino ln the of M It I had In iii hi his own lot when he had hal lint frt conceived It He lie le carried you rou along with him from Crom I first to lust an tin 11 hu he worked steadily Ht climax his voice took the tok a IL 1 of at tone tote oR eA n at nL the hiss close dOI of path each ter er cru Nevermore ac as 1 he ut uttered It was Wl a it won worl full tul of noel deep ce 11 mean Inn Now Nor It I ivis Wil said lall ld ns as If f in It ht In again In Indignant anger and yet et again 1 ln In a I i croaking whisper At the tha close of the tiu vr Verse e next to the Ih t ho hA the ai al althere d there follow t l a paulo pIUM H Ju I Tinning ginnIng the this lut N terse 01 r e hU his vol 01 t 1 and arid lower loser until at itt t the last hat III It U w almost alm t Inaudible In AH itt he ut rl In Iii a i L inott LoC soft nott oC weird voice olce the lInes linen And ld rny mY ioui IOU ul I from out that shadow that ll lies on the tile Hour Shall b be ver more b he lie to be b oblivious to tn nil I II ins II surroundIng HU his deepen dark lAk H were fixed on al the floor nor mid lud IP to Ir the he sat lat mt M Mand and for tor some 1011 minutes IlZ Ing hag as o v with I Ith rapt vision Islon on unseen to others The effect more pat par as ai he hr hI heaved a R sigh itch at lit the close eloH was former Brooklyn Wait Whitman this boy bY ka knew v Intimately at a n ported sortie some 1 le years later hater later Whitman had then pub published published l he several of hla 11 ht works and arid held an a 1 appointment In the New York Custom Custon Customhouse house It was wan BS characteristic of ot hint him himS S B this thin evidently keen observer that thai I he always walked across to Brooklyn and Ind was as never nCr known then to take an MI a omnibus or n a car ear As Ss s ho come came saunter saunterIng log Ing In along nIng his leonine figure at once ar or tested rested attention Ho He walked In 11 R a 1 caro less Ius manner maimer but with without tint out any an swagger his bare breast heavily I Ily fly ily matted with hair fully fum exposed alk alkIn ly Most striking In iii summer eummer und and winter of or alt all however was vita tho the faraway arara look lookIn Ilok I In lit his al eyes l He Ito was OIS up tIp never down antI and If It he had met his hil own brother In II tim tho th street he ho would nev never sr hive hao seen leen hint him hll U 1 I I was tens aA certainly not ti Li t but rather nn an on en engaged 01 Title This char characteristic 1 and tind one Ind l likewise apparent In was wan liven Even In n a Bohemian club II much by hy literary men nien nn hR n luch i but hut mote moie lively or Jocular mOle w tsi m never luever lel mood and would of ot a II contemplative polite Hime 11 times sit H for an fn hour oU without bl bitt thu characteristic Of or Longfellow remembers most vividly isis hi speaker r grand handsome personal appearance i With his hiiR Mowing hair and full tull heard hear hiI Wih he hue gays cabs the lh great grent poet i Ct sure tre a 1 resemblance to some olLie of the tite old pI rl ole o He lie of LC Moses III in continental le leWI was WI a ver err tery id In I ii his hil hi e tutu titters and ant tint In I t and autti some somewhat widely society was WIth rAthel lome what shy Min He tie 11 could be tc und perhaps I tense put unpleasant U It ii 1 und and U iid some so tue of his hiM i Il IC i vere caustic he hut h describes II 1 ns as 18 art alit 1 to carry the pro attitude Into society Wendell I I Iw ho I to found what tilt a L every aver everyone of If tho auto one Ott ha hav e expected lutO oral Oln a ti 1 man hull nt ot warm humanity witty wity a Li In and In tnt sense lense capital fellow Calow I I U it 1 IH its II not out often of tel that a it novelist draws 18 so Mo fascinating n U picture of at any region 1 I that wider of or his bitt book feel themselves obliged to K I and tind live Iho Ivo In It Immediate Immediately ly Jr It I Is le II seriously h Mated however that the th preparation which a large Inre party of London society folk are lre now to ii camp out In iii h the this desert nf of nn ore duo due entirely to In the appeal made to tho the various members by br Robert hick Ilch hickens book Tho The Garden of Al SI Allah enn ens recent students of uC life hut lah These In tho iii desert will wil leave lente len London for fn Cairo airo on ott Nov Oo 16 10 and will vili 11 pitch their tamp not far tar from from rom the lie Each I ach number mt of at the party part Is II to have a ii sleeping tent decorated In the In Interior with colored colon linens and Ind there then H Ii to bo be n a wih large 1 dining Biting tent for tor all ni anti and Ind a tent for foi the tie lie ladles Real Heal Really ItAI Heally ly Iy there no nun 10 reason roson why the cx Cj e not bo tue I a u grout great relt success In which case we may Ini have set Mt setting ting thug off nIT for Iceland to 0 visit the scenes CeleS 01 In II I it The Tim nt hl I ira I Situ Hon In or i ii itt I rots of lt 1 the Pilchard stories ramping camping OUt In th the tf sierras to tn study the Iho th erstwhile environment nt of or Dun Q QIA IA YDE u U |
