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Literary Intelligence: Literary Conflict - Rejoinder

"Literary Intelligence: Literary Conflict - Rejoinder." American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette, March 13, 1858, 121-122.
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Type
magazine
Genre
correspondence
literary criticisim
letter to the editor
Abstract

A continuation of the correspondence published in the previous issue concerning claims that Fitz-James O'Brien borrowed the plot for The Diamond Lens from an unpublished manuscript by William North. Consists of a letter by Augustus Maverick, quoting in full a letter by Charles Bailey Seymour to Maverick on the matter.

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Bellew, Frank

Seymour mentions discussing the controversy surrounding The Diamond Lens with "Mr. O'Brien's friend, a celebrated artist of this City... who was also one of Mr. N[orth]'s friends." This artist admitted that he gave the idea for the story to O'Brien, but had forgotten that North had told him this idea long ago. The artist was most likely Frank Bellew, who was a friend of both authors and was later identified by William Winter as one of two possible sources for the idea behind The Diamond Lens.

Seymour, Charles

Includes a letter by Seymour, who served as the literary executor of William North.

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