We are very glad you have sent "Ship Ahoy!"2 to The
Companion, for it breathes a spirit which it is a pleasure to help in
spreading, with our hearty thanks for it, in hope you will accept Messrs. Perry
Mason & Co's cheque for fifteen dollars ($15.00) in payment for the
manuscript. Copies of the paper containing the lines will be sent you when loc_vm.01585.jpg they appear.
Correspondent:
The Youth's Companion, a weekly magazine for families and children, was
founded by Nathaniel Willis in 1827. During its more than one-hundred-year run,
the magazine published contributions by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For more on the Youth's
Companion, see Susan Belasco, Youth's Companion.