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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MENTIONED IN - 'The Diamond Lens'--A Literary Controversy.
