The bearer of this is my son1—who inherits his father's admiration for you. He will explain his mission & if you can gratify him, I will greatly appreciate the kindness.
The Whitman articles2 are exciting considerable attention.—Will get up the notices after while and send them to you for perusal.
Ever yours truly J. M. Stoddart—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).