"POLLY PLUM'S" REPLY TO "VERITAS."

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3970, 13 May 1870, Page 4

"POLLY PLUM'S" REPLY TO " VERITAS."

To the Editor df the TaAME9 'Advertiser, and Miner's News. Sir, — I do not see the Thames Advertiser, but a friend has kindly clipped a letter signed " Veritas," which concerns me, from your columns, and sent it to me. I beg to assure you, on the honour of a lady, that I never either saw or heard of the work referred to by "Veritas," and that any resemblance is purely accidental. 1 never see the Weekly News but I am aware that the articles that appear in the Cross, which I do see, are re-produced in that paper. I have not written an article with the heading mentioned by "Veritas," nor has one with that heading appeared in the Cross. If it has in the Weekly News, the editor must have put that heading to some pap<*r that I sent under a different title, and, until 1 inquire from him about it, I am quite in the dark as to which of my articles he refers to. However, I can safely aver that it was not borrowed from Mrs. Willard's work, as I never even heard her name until I met with it in " Veritas's" letter to your paper. You will do me a great favour by giving this a place in your columns, at your earliest convenience. Others may think as I do, and that may sometimes be the occasion of similarity, but I never borrow. Those who know me best are aware that my time is so fully occupied that I have scarcely time to pen my thoughts, and that making' my articles a business of study and looking up from other works is quite out of the question. I would not do it if I had ever so much time. All I write ia absolutely genuine. On one or two occasions some work I have read has Buggeated the train of thoughts, as in the case of " Lords of the Creation," which was suggested to my mind by Hapw ortb Dixou'B "New Amerioa;" but tQose who have read that paper will see that I admit having the ideas suggested by a book, though I So not mention the name. I lhall write to, the editor of the Weekly NIWB oonoerning the artiole referred to by 1 ' VeritM, " I have so often experienced the courtesy of tho Preis, that I feel I need not Apologise for aaltiigyou to find room for this longcommunioation. , The charge of plagiarism, is such a ■ grave , one to bring against a writer, that I Am, sure you will consider that there is quite sufficient excuse for this rather lengthy defence. — I remain, , fee, Polly

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