MADAME LOTTI WILMOT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5798, 18 September 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)

MADAME LOTTI WILMOT.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —When I read on Monday last your report on my Sunday eyeniDg lecture, " The Devil," I resolved tnat it was best to treat it with the contempt such an uncalled-for personal attack deserved; but so many of the inhabitants o! the city have Bpoken to me on the subject that I write in defence of lay wellearned reputation. Why your reporter should say that there " will be fewer ladies on future occasions " I cannot tell, as all must agree I make every effort and study to promote the welfare and enlightenment of my own sex. "To the pure all^ things are pure," and in speaking on religions subjects I must, like the clergy, sometimes call a " spade a spade." To your timid, bashful reporter, I can only say

II faut.quc jeunosse passe.

Trusting your well-known. fairness will give this a space in your paper on to-morrow (Saturday) morning, to counteract any mistaken views of Monday's isßue—l am, &0.,

Lorn Wilmot,

Royal Exchange Hotel, September 17 th.

[Wo give this letter insertion, but have every confidence that our reporter has given a correct account of the last lecture. Thu is borne ont by independent testimony. We shall think it wiser on all accounts to refrain from further c jmments pu these lectures than those which appear to-day in our columns.—Ed. O. D. T.]