The essay, “Maelzel’s Chess Player,” provided 17 pieces of evidence and was praised by contemporary papers, according to a listing of reviews in “The Poe Log,” a copy of which was provided to The Sun by local Poe scholar George Figgs. These ranged from the Norfolk Herald, which called it one of the “best articles of any kind which have ever appeared in an American Periodical,” to the New-Yorker (a different New Yorker than the one we know of today, which was founded in 1925), which agreed with Poe’s solution, but complained that, around 9600 words, the essay was too long.