The Boston Post - Monday, May 27, 1895
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NOT TO COMFORT LADY WILDE.
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.