Can you use this little poem, "Shakespeare-Bacon Cipher?" The price is $25. . . . I retain the right to print in future book. It will not be proper for you to take out copyright—but the thing is exclusively yours until after printing and publishing in your papers.1
Correspondent:
Samuel Sidney McClure
(1857–1949) was the co-founder and editor of McClure's
Magazine. Well-known for its investigative journalism, the illustrated
monthly initially rejected Whitman's submissions and only posthumously published
some of his poetry (in 1897).