Davis had met the gentlemen of the _Port Folio_ and had all the information necessary for stinging satire of the Mutual Admiration Society that met at Meredith's and Hopkinson's or at Dennie's office. In his "Travels" (p. 203), he writes: "At Philadelphia I found Mr. Brown (C. B.), who felt no remission of his literary diligence by a change of abode (from New York). He was ingratiating himself into the favor of the ladies by writing a new novel, and rivalling Lopez de Vega by the multitude of his works. Mr. Brown introduced me to Mr. (Asbury) Dickins, and Mr. Dickins to Mr. Dennie; Mr. Dennie presented me to Mr. Wilkins, and Mr. Wilkins to the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie; a constellation of American geniuses, in whose blaze I was almost consumed.... Rev. Mr. Abercrombie was impatient of every conversation that did not relate to Dr. Johnson, of whom he could detail every anecdote from the time he trod on a duck till he purchased an oak-stick to repulse Macpherson."[15] [15] Abercrombie's prospectus for a new edition of Johnson's Works--"to be comprised in fourteen octavo volumes, with new designs and plates. Phila.: 1811"--is contained in the _Port Folio_, Vol. VI, p. 98. In the "Philadelphia Pursuits" Davis wrote of Dennie: "There's no clown from Walpole to Hell-Gate, But ribaldry from him has learned to prate." And again: "Such is our Dennie! high exalted name, Eager alike for dollars and for fame." Two Philadelphians only escaped the sting of the adder: "With Clifton, Nature's poet, who shall vie? Though low he lies, his works shall never die. And Linn, distinguish'd for his moral lays, Shall, by his strain, Columbia's triumph raise." "The Sketches in Verse" was magnificently printed for C. and A. Conrad by Smith and Maxwell in 1810. To "a pastoral love-ditty" that began-- "Where Schuylkill o'er his rocky bed Roars, like a bull in battle"-- Rose appended the note: "Our American names, although some of them are truly savage, are not much worse than many of those with which we might be furnished by other nations in abundance; and Schuylkill would not have offended the ears of Boileau more than the Whal and the Leck, the Issel and the Zuiderzee." THOMAS I. WHARTON (1791-1856), a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer, was a frequent contributor, and for a time was editor of the _Analectic Magazine_. CHARLES J. INGERSOLL, the author of "Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters on American Literature and Politics," was born in Philadelphia, October 3, 1782, and died there May 14, 1862. His first boyish composition is in the _Port Folio_ of October 24, 1801. It is entitled "Chiomara," and is introduced by the editor as the work of a "youth ambitious of the fame of Chatterton." Chiomara is a Gaul, who kills a Roman in defence of her honor.