Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), “A Mistake” (A), from the Evening Mirror (New York), January 18, 1845, p. 2, col. 1

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A MISTAKE. — Through inadvertence, while penning, yesterday, a paragraph expressing our admiration of certain critical notices which appeared in a morning paper, we wrote “Tribune,” when we should have written “Morning News.” The criticisms to which we referred were in the latter — although those of the former might have justified our saying as much of them.