Edwin Percy Whipple, Boston, MA., autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 6 January 1849
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Can do nothing with [Francis] Bowen to prevent Mrs. [E. F.] Ellet's review [of Female Poets of America in the North American Review]. Reproves the New York literati for quarrelling. His own Essays and Reviews is being "shabbily treated" by critics in New York and Philadelphia.