In 1912, Frank O'Hare became editor of the Rip-Saw, a socialist monthly issued from St. Louis. He was married to the prominent socialist Kate Richards O'Hare, who was imprisoned during World War I (April 1919). Transcription: [January] 12th, 1918 Dear Frank:- I have just finished your letter. There is no answer beyond saying that I am entirely satisfied. I have not a particle of feeling. Malice I never had a trace of in my nature toward you and could not have. As you referred specifically and with bitter reproach to Kate ?s ?ǣassociate ? in one of the opening paragraphs of your previous lette
In 1912, Frank O'Hare became editor of the Rip-Saw, a socialist monthly issued from St. Louis. He was married to the prominent socialist Kate Richards O'Hare, who was imprisoned during World War I (April 1919). Transcription: [January] 12th, 1918 Dear Frank:- I have just finished your letter. There is no answer beyond saying that I am entirely satisfied. I have not a particle of feeling. Malice I never had a trace of in my nature toward you and could not have. As you referred specifically and with bitter reproach to Kate ?s ?ǣassociate ? in one of the opening paragraphs of your previous letter and charged that not one comradely word had been spoken in her behalf by her ?ǣassociates ? editors, how could I help taking your rebuke to myself? If I felt unduly sensitive upon the point it is simply because of conception of comradely duty, for if I felt myself guilty for a moment of ignoring or deserting a comrade such as Kate when she was attacked while she was fighting our battle and attacked in the most cowardly and brutal way, I would feel myself to be the meanest and most contemptible of creatures, and it is in that light that your letter placed me according to my interpretation of it. This may account for the spirit in which I resented the imputation so clearly implied in what you wrote. In your accusation of neglect and desertion against Kate ?s ?ǣassociate ? editors you made no exception, and I as the chief among them could not but feel in the face of such a plain and direct charge that the entire burden of it was meant for me, notwithstanding I had done all I could, little enough, God knows, to help Kate under the circumstances. Had you known how keenly I felt the outrage perpetrated upon her, how deeply I sympathized with her in the hardships she had to bear, and how gladly I would have shared it all with her if I only could, you would never have written as you did and you would not blame me for answering as I did. You were particular to say in your letter th
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