Text: Uneda, “[Poe and Plagiarism],” Notes and Queries (London, UK), April 22, 1876, p. 336, col. 1

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PHILADELPHIA AUTHORS (5th S. iv. 467; v. 75.) — Mr. Francis Harold Duffee is living, and is a member of the Philadelphia board of stockbrokers. He is a gentleman of decided literary taste, and finds no difficulty in cultivating that taste and attending at the same time to the bulls and bears; just as Rogers was a good poet as well as a good banker. Some years ago, Mr. Duffee proved that Poe (a most unprincipled man) was a plagiary of his most celebrated story, The Gold Bug. Mr . Duffee was at one time a resident of London. Of Mr. R. C. McLellan (erroneously called McClennan) I can, at present, learn nothing. Robert W. Ewing was a merchant in this city. A friend informs me that “he was known as a dramatic critic, having established a reputation as a severe censor of the stage, under the signature ‘Jacques,’ during the years 1825 and 1826. Some time during the fall of 1834 or 1835 he was in Mobile, Alabama, where he died.” Mr. James Rees is still living, at the age of seventy-four. He holds a position in the Philadelphia Post Office. He was for many years a dramatic critic under the name of “Colley Cibber,” and has written several plays; also a biography of Edwin Forrest, and an interesting book, just published, called Shakespeare and the Bible.

UNEDA

Philadelphia.