Reprints a letter to the editors of the Evening Post by Fitz-James O'Brien and a response by Augustus Maverick, concerning whether O'Brien borrowed the plot of The Diamond Lens from William North.
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AUTHOR(S) OF - 'The Diamond Lens'--A Literary Controversy.
Characterized as an "eccentric literary man not without a spice of genius," William North was born in England and eventually settled in New York City (W. Rossetti 48-49).
