We have asked a number of the most prominent bachelors in the country to answer the question "why am I a Bachelor?" with the purpose of publishing a symposium on the subject in an early number of "The Illustrated American."2
We should highly esteem a contribution from your pen, and the favor will be doubled if you can send it at your early convenience.
Yours very truly, Maurice M. Minton General Manager A. L. loc.02343.002.jpg loc.02343.003.jpg loc.02343.004.jpgCorrespondent:
Maurice Meyer Minton
(1859–1926) was a writer, politician, and editor, working as sports and
drama editor of the New York Telegram and managing editor
of the New York Herald. He founded The
Illustrated American in 1890 and was editor and owner until 1894;
Whitman appeared on the cover of the magazine in the April 19, 1890, issue. The
publication was a weekly photographic news magazine, published at the Bible
House, the headquarters of the American Bible Society, devoted to printing and
distributing millions of bibles. The Bible House was located in a large and
iconic cast iron building at Astor Place and East Ninth Street in New York City,
which housed several publishing businesses and was a center of intellectual and
literary activity.