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Correspondence: George Kephart to Michael Frome

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  • satisfies my curiosity and I can continue with your description of the benefits we have all derived from Bartram's visit. It is proper that you should also explain why Horace Kephart was drawn to these High Places. One reason was a weakness that, today, is recognized as physical illness rather than a form of moral depravity. So I do not complain at your publishing this fact. It has been known to many people for many years,' No one, not ovon his family, believes that Horace Kephart sriould be placed on a pedestal, for display of his virtues only. But why, in contrast with your treatment of Bartram and the other Strangers, do you find it convenient to recount, in lurid detail, this imperfection in Kephart*s life? It is of no absorbing interest to those who ask, "What heritage of knowledge or pleasure have we received from Horace Kephart?" These lurid details may be of greater interest to gossips and those who cast the first stone. Other questions come to mind. In the summation of Chapter XII you conclude that, "Kephart has been gonerally forgotten as an author. And perhaps ho should be as far as enduring literary qualities are concerned,..." Yet, in the succeeding sentence you are forced to concede, "But he figures boldly in any study of the Smokies and his place will last forever." That he "figures boldly" is evident from your frequent references to him. The index of your book gives nineteen separate citations to the name "Kephart." This number is approached only by the fourteen citations to Arno Cammerer, eleven citations to Attakullaloilla, and ten to Horace Albright, In the narrative to which the citations refer, your comments relative to the Kephart citations outstrip in volume any of the others to an oven greater degree. I have noted, above, your unfavorable opinion of my father's literary efforts. I make no claim that Kephart was a Shakespeare, or a Dickens. But when you damn his work with faint praise you run counter to ;the high esteem in which his work is held by many competent critics of literary style. In brief, it has been the consensus among such critics that Horace Kephart was a meticulous craftsman; an honest, constructive writer; and an artist in his command of •the written word. If, in your opinion, he was not skilled as an author, why have you found it convenient to quoto him so often, verbatim, on a variety of subjects not related to his own history? Why have you paraphrased him at times? Compare your third full paragraph, page 151, with similar material at the third-from-last page of Kephart's little autobiography. Is there any reason why you might not have covered these subjects in your own words, instead of resorting to quotations and paraphrasing, unless you found it difficult to improve upon his style? The general public, as well as professional critics, have found Kephart's literary qualities reasonably enduring, as you revealed at pages 152 and 153.
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