I am going to do myself the pleasure of seeing you next week some day when I will bring over a copy of the picture and the poems that we have on hand, and discuss the matter of the article.2 In the meantime, I will send you within a day or two, 10 copies of the Magazine which does contain your poem "To The Sunset Breeze",3 and you can have as many more as you can use to advantage.
Yours truly JM Stoddart loc_gt.00172_large.jpgCorrespondent:
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).