With an assist from @juliendorra, I think I have an update to one of the side conversations that came from this incredible anti-iceland article yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1110931008772280320 …
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a 1954 New Yorker article (!) lays out much of the juicy detail, including appearances by itinerant psychics, feuding members of the suffrage movement, and the phrase "Mrs. Woodhull delivered her first blow at a spiritualists’ convention in Boston."https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/12/the-beecher-tilton-case-ii …
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As best i can tell, the original essay in which Mrs. Woodhull laid out her case (thus prompting Mr. Tilton to sue Beecher) does not exist online. But it was, let's say, WIDELY read. It does not, however, appeared to have slowed Beecher's affections.pic.twitter.com/0UB2NCPfxA
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this last screenshot, and my last plea to you to go read the whole thing, is to say the '54 new yorker article ALSO INCLUDES TESTIMONY of the trail, the official Brooklyn Scandal. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/12/the-beecher-tilton-case-ii …pic.twitter.com/XAjwSmG3pm
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this is such a fantastic book and if you've never read it, go leave work now and do thathttps://twitter.com/RKWinvisibleman/status/1111267319832035329 …
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I think there's some explanation of this affair in David McCullough's excellent The Great Bridge, about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Bridge-Building-Brooklyn-Touchstone/dp/067145711X …
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At the time, Beecher's preaching was such a big draw that Plymouth Church services were a big source of traffic for ferries across the East River. So his fate was material to the (then-toll) bridge's prospects.
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