Your account was referred to the cashier and you have probably heard from him before this. We have published every poem received from you1 and were not aware that any had been omitted. Please send us ten more for this month.2
Very Truly, James Gordon Bennett3 J.C.Correspondent:
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
(1841–1918) was the publisher of the New York
Herald, which had been founded by his father in 1835. For more on the
paper and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan
Belasco, "The New York Herald."