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The Boston Post - Monday, May 27, 1895
To the Editor of the Post:
Sir - You have unwittingly, I am sure, done me a great injustice in reprinting an alleged interview with me published in a New York Sunday paper. It is true that I have leased the business direction of my publishing house, true also that I sailed for Europe this month, as I have done every May for the past ten years for my summer vacation, but I am not going for the purpose of visiting and comforting Lady Wilde. I severed my connection with the family over two years ago for good and sufficient reasons.
My sense of justice prompted me when interviewed recently to speak of Oscar Wilde as I knew him - as son, husband, father and friend - in other words to do what we would all wish done for us, i.e., to dwell upon the good and not the evil that is in us. I can only infer that my generosity must have been misconstrued and have led to the article which you have reproduced. May I ask that you also do me the justice of contradicting it, for I expect to return, in early September, to my editorial duties, and do not wish meantime to appear ridiculous in the eyes of your readers.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE. 43-44 Bond street, New York.
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
Mrs. Frank Leslie, in a letter to THE ENQUIRER, says:
"You have unwittingly, I am sure, done me a great injustice in reprinting an alleged interview with me published in a New York Sunday paper. It is true that I have leased the business direction of my publishing house; true also that I sell for Europe this month, as I have done every May for the past 10 years for my summer vacation, but I am not going 'for the purpose of comforting Lady Wilde.' I severed my connection with the family over two years ago for good and sufficient reasons. My sense of justice prompted me when interviewed recently to speak of Oscar Wilde as I knew him—as son, husband, father and friend—in other words, to do what we would all wish done for us, i.e., to dwell upon the good and not the evil that is in us. I can only infer that my generosity must have been misconstrued."
Mrs. Leslie denies emphatically that there was any truth in the interview, and adds:
"I expect to return in early September to my editorial duties, and do not wish meantime to appear ridiculous in the eyes of your readers."