Text: N. P. Willis, A Paragraph on the Poe-Longfellow War, Evening Mirror (New York), February 14, 1845, vol. 1, no. 111, p. 2, col. 3

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☞ To satisfy a friend we say that if our playful notice of our assistant critic's notice of “Longfellow's Waif” a few days since, did not give the impression that we (Willis) fully dissented from our assistant as to the charge against Longfellow for enviously leaving out of his book such poets as competed with himself — dissented from all the disparagement of Longfellow in this review, and only let it pass for good reasons given at length in this same article — if that impression was not given, it was not the fault of the fullest intention to that effect. We meant to do so, and we think it was so understood, — but for a friend for whom we would do a much more unreasonable thing, we thus draw the nail and drive it again.