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The Beecher-Tilton scandal...
The Beecher-Tilton scandal...
Item # 694612
April 16, 1878
THE DAILY MEMPHIS AVALANCHE, Tennessee, April 16, 1878
The front page has an article: "Sinned And Suffered!" "Mrs. Tilton Confesses to Adultery with Henry Ward Beecher".
This is the infamous Beecher-Tilden Scandal which received much press in the 1870's. The scandal first erupted publicly in 1872, when women's rights advocate Victoria Woodhull accused Henry Ward Beecher, a well-known and widely popular New York, clergyman, of adultery. It was charged that, in the late 1860s, Beecher had conducted an affair with Elizabeth Tilton, wife of Theodore Tilton.
In this article Elizabeth. Hilton admits to the affair, her letter noting in part: "...the charge brought by my husband, of adultery between myself and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was true, and that the lie I had lived so well the last four years had become intolerable to me...". The article takes two-thirds of a column.
Four pages, large folio size, irregular at the spine margin due to disbinding, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
This is the infamous Beecher-Tilden Scandal which received much press in the 1870's. The scandal first erupted publicly in 1872, when women's rights advocate Victoria Woodhull accused Henry Ward Beecher, a well-known and widely popular New York, clergyman, of adultery. It was charged that, in the late 1860s, Beecher had conducted an affair with Elizabeth Tilton, wife of Theodore Tilton.
In this article Elizabeth. Hilton admits to the affair, her letter noting in part: "...the charge brought by my husband, of adultery between myself and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was true, and that the lie I had lived so well the last four years had become intolerable to me...". The article takes two-thirds of a column.
Four pages, large folio size, irregular at the spine margin due to disbinding, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Category: Post-Civil War
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