We have been informed that when you were younger and less famous than now, you were in New Orleans and perhaps have helped on the Picayune. If you have any remembrance of the Picayune's young days, or of journalism in New Orleans of that era, and would put it in writing (verse or prose) for the Picayune's fiftieth year edition, Jan. 25, we shall be pleased.1
Correspondent:
At the time, Eliza Jane
Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (1843–1896), a Mississippi-born poet and
journalist, owned the Picayune.