G. B. Starr to W. C. White, August 20, 1933

Regarding the letter, or statement supposed to have been made by Miss Fannie Bolton, Dec. 30, 1914, to some friend, which you enclosed, I can only say that I regard it as the most absurdly, untruthful lot of rubbish that I have ever seen or read regarding our dear Sister White.FBS 118.3

The event simply never occurred. I never saw your mother eat oysters or meat of any kind either in a restaurant or at her own table. Fannie Bolton’s statement that “Elder Starr hunted around till he found her behind a screen in the restaurant of the station where she was apparently very gratified in eating big white raw oysters with vinegar, pepper and salt,” is a lie of the first order. I never had such an experience and it is too absurd for anyone who ever knew your mother to believe.FBS 118.4

Of course you will know how true the story of the “Bloody beefstake” spread on a brown paper, and carried into the Tourist car and cooked by Miss McEnterfer, is. I do not believe that either.FBS 118.5

I think this entire letter was written by Fannie Bolton in one of her most insane moments; when the enemy of her soul and of the Testimonies of Jesus, was working her poor mind at a high pitch. I pity her and any one who will believe what she has written.FBS 118.6

When we visited Florida, in 1928, Mrs. Starr and I were told that at a camp meeting, Fannie Bolton, made a public statment that she had lied about Sr. White, and that she repented of it. We sincerely hope that she did repent and that she received entire forgiveness. She certainly was not responsible for all that she thought or said. Her pride and egotism led her to overestimate her work for Sr. White. Her statements regarding Sr. White’s “illiteracy, lack of logic, mixed metaphors, lack of connections and climax, and marked with awkward sentences, platitudes, etc.” is also false. Some of the finest sentences ever penned, were written by her, and not a few, but hundreds and thousands of such sentences. No writer of any age, “ancient, medieval, or modern” as a teacher of English Literature stated to her class in Boston, Mass. has equalled her. She was the pen-woman, Jesus was the inspirer of the thoughts. She never failed to give the credit to Him and to the Holy Spirit that inspired her.FBS 118.7

We have no sympathy with any spirit or any person that in any way belittles her person or her writings. We who knew her intimately for a half of a century, knew her to be a consistent, truthful, happy victorious Christian. We believe that she was educated in the best school in the world, “The School of Christ,” and that she was very far removed from ignorance or illiteracy. It was a privilege to have known her and to be associated with her, a benediction and spiritual help.FBS 119.1

We regard it as one of God’s greatest blessings to us, to have had the privilege of traveling with her and living in her home. She was one of God’s noblest characters. She finished her work nobly and well and a great reward awaits her waking.FBS 119.2