Mr. Shawn, in the aftermath of his own efforts, which he sometimes fiercely defended, sometimes denied, to appoint Jonathan Schell, had told Mr. Botsford that he was tired of these struggles, that it would relieve him of some of his burden if Mr. Botsford would consent to an interim appointment as his successor. Gardner, touched, and against his better judgment, agreed. Whereupon Mr. Shawn rounded upon him, denounced him in a letter to the publisher, Peter Fleischmann, and began, with Lillian Ross and Jonathan Schell, his embittered campaign.
