Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), “A Mistake” (A), from the Evening Mirror (New York), January 18, 1845, p. 2, col. 1


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[page 2, column 1:]

A MISTAKE. — Through inadvertence, while penning, yesterday, a paragraph expressing our admiration of certain critical notices which appeared in a morning paper, we wrote “Tribune,” when we should have written “Morning News.” The criticisms to which we referred were in the latter — although those of the former might have justified our saying as much of them.


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Notes:

This item is attributed to Poe by Mabbott in his notes at the University of Iowa, where he states “Corrects error in Criticism of previous day. Sure, TOM.”

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