H. Koenig suggests that we missed a golden opportunity by not supplying the debaters with gloves and entering them in the Golden Glove Contests in Madison Square Garden! "When you shout, pertaining to Smith stories, 'May the ink dry up in the pen from which they flow!' you affect the refined and sensitive minds of the admirers of beautiful things, and cause them to exclaim, 'Here, indeed, is one who endeavors to do something in words as terrible as in actuality: cleave the head of a genius in twain!' Hence our fitting denunciation of you, Mr. Ackerman, for attempting to backbite one of the greatest writers America has ever produced."--Robert Nelson "When some well-meaning person says that Ackerman has more sense than Smith and Lovecraft combined, he is just being ridiculous. If Clark Ashton Smith has a diseased mind, as Mr. Alexander states, I would for one like to be exposed to the germ."--Duane W. Rimel "I have been following with interest the Ackerman adventures in your pages. I am wondering if he ever wrote any stories, besides criticizing then?"--Natalie H. Wooley "The Ackerman-Smith debate amuses me. Of course, I am squarely on Smith's side, and don't understand why you publish the more puerile of the letters on the matter, such as the one by Lloyd Fowler."--August W. Derleth "The whole argument was caused by Ackerman claiming that Smith's 'Dweller in Martian Depths' should not have appeared in _Wonder Stories_. Smith should have sent the story to _Weird Tales_, thus avoiding a clash with Ackerman, who, I take it, has no use for weird literature. Or the editor of _Wonder Stories_ should have foreseen some catastrophe and promptly returned it to C. A. Smith, who I esteem very highly, by the way."--F. Lee Baldwin