Enclosed please find $40.00, payment for services for Apl. 88
Please acknowledge receipt by return mail, and oblige,
Yours very truly, J. G. BENNETT. To Walt Whitman YCAL_MSS-13-3.jpgCorrespondent:
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."