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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1
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Versatilities
Robert Henry Newell
Lee and Shepard, 1871
Literary Collections; General; Literary Collections / General
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IT was nearly sixty years ago. The interval of three score years between then and now would be but insig nificant as a paragraph in the history of any Old World metropolis but in the marvelous record of New York -the predestined millionopolis of Christendom - it has been a period of bamboo-like urban growth to amaze even those yet living witnesses Whose memories can recall its every progressive phase. Only of late had the town been surveyed and laid out beyond Houston Street, and scarcely ten years had elapsed since a ghastly pro cession of sheriff, bishop, hangman's cart, civic soldiery and constabulary piloted a ribald mob from the Bride well in the City Hall Park, to an Open field immediately below that street's intersection of the city's chief high way, to the public execution Of three wretches made thus to expiate the crime of firing a church.
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Robert Henry Newell was an American journalist, poet, and humorist, who wrote under the pen-name Orpheus C. Kerr. His writings are marked with the conventional merits and defects of his time and show nothing to elevate him above the crowd.
Background
Robert Henry Newell was born on December 13, 1836 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Robert and Ann Lawrence Newell. His father was a manufacturer and inventor, the designer of a patent lock and a sewing machine, whose work received the award of a gold medal at the "Great Exhibition" in London, 1851.
Education
Robert Henry Newell attended a private academy but the death of his father left the family in straitened circumstances and he was denied a college education.
Career
Newell began to write fugitive pieces for the New York press in which work he achieved immediate recognition and employment. He became an assistant editor of the New York Sunday Mercury in 1858, for which during the next two years he contributed a variety of verse and current comment all of which has proved as ephemeral as it was successful.
The outbreak of the Civil War gave him the opportunity and the occasion to write the Orpheus C. Kerr papers, originally initiated in the form of Washington correspondence to the Mercury, continued for other journals, and published later in three volumes (1862 - 65). The name was a supposedly laughable transposition of "office seeker. " The flood of applicants for office, when President Buchanan went out and Lincoln came in, was an outstanding political feature of the moment and the "office seeker" became a stock character of political lampoonery.
The Orpheus C. Kerr papers possess now only a historical interest as a sort of comic commentary on the history of the Civil War. They contain a mixture of what is meant to be funny dialogue, imaginary episodes and war incidents, interspersed with various verses and poems intended to be pathetic but rarely more than sentimental.
His connection with the Mercury (1858 - 62) was followed by his occupancy of various literary editorships in New York. He was a war correspondent for the New York Herald, an editor of the New York World (1869 - 74), editor of the Daily Graphic, and later of a weekly journal called Hearth and Home, his last position as a journalist. A painful nervous affliction which rendered writing physically difficult and impaired his sight removed Newell in 1876 from active employment and the last quarter-century of his life was spent in the shadow. Apart from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers by which his name is chiefly remembered, Newell collected and published two volumes of his verse, The Palace Beautiful and Other Poems (1865) and Versatilities (1871). While still active as a journalist he had written Avery Glibun, or Between Two Fires (1867). After his retirement he wrote a romance, There was once a Man (1884), a story intended to satirize the still novel and still wicked Darwinian theory of the descent of man. He also wrote a book called The Cloven Foot, one of the many attempts to interpret and complete (1870) Charles Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Newell introduced a novel feature in transferring the setting of the story to American conditions, but his work appears to have passed without recognition in the voluminous Edwin Drood controversies. He also published a novel of New York life in 1872 under the title of The Walking Doll, or the Asters and Disasters of Society.
He died in Brooklyn early in July 1901.
His pathos is based upon genuine feeling but runs easily to sentiment, his tears flow kindly but easily run to drivel, his humor demands an uproarious reader. His work is interesting nowadays only as illustrating, for those who care to know it, the current way of writing, joking, and weeping, which has been replaced by our own.