. The life and letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck . from wordsthat dropped from the poet during their interviev/,vvhile speaking of Hogbin, that Halleck was indeed, asCooper called him, *The Admirable Croaker. Twodays later, the follov/ing paragraph appeared in theEvening Post: Several inquiries having been made FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 339 of us respecting the name of the author of an Epistleto Mr. Hogbin, pubhshed a day or two since in ourpaper, ^ took measures to acquaint him with the fact,in order that, if there was no objection on his part, wemight satisfy the curiosity of those who had appUed to
. The life and letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck . from wordsthat dropped from the poet during their interviev/,vvhile speaking of Hogbin, that Halleck was indeed, asCooper called him, *The Admirable Croaker. Twodays later, the follov/ing paragraph appeared in theEvening Post: Several inquiries having been made FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 339 of us respecting the name of the author of an Epistleto Mr. Hogbin, pubhshed a day or two since in ourpaper, ^ took measures to acquaint him with the fact,in order that, if there was no objection on his part, wemight satisfy the curiosity of those who had appUed tous. This morning we received from him the followingnote in reply: The author of the Epistle to has, unfortunately, no name. His father andmother, in that season of life in which children aregenerally named, took advantage of his youth and in-experience, and declined giving him any. He is, there-fore, compelled to imitate the Minstrel of Yarrow, inLeydens Scenes of Infancy, and like him * Saves others names, but leaves his own
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