Can you use this in the magazine? It is intended to make one page full & square—& I shall require to see a proof beforehand—(that is indispensable.) The price is $60 & a dozen copies of the magazine number. I reserve the right of printing in future book.
Respectfully &c: Walt WhitmanIf necessary I will contract or expand it (in proof) to make the fair page—
Correspondent:
Joseph Marshall Stoddart
(1845–1921) published Stoddart's Encyclopaedia
America, established Stoddart's Review in 1880,
which was merged with The American in 1882, and became
the editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1886. On
January 11, 1882, Whitman received an
invitation from Stoddart through J. E. Wainer, one of his associates, to dine
with Oscar Wilde on January 14 (Clara Barrus, Whitman and
Burroughs—Comrades [Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931],
235n).