
As one of your admirers, and as the cousin of Mr. Robert Buchanan,
another of your admirers, I want you to do me a favor—that is, to write me
a lyric—something in the style of that on Abraham Lincoln—for a new
monthly magazine I am
about to bring
out. Will you do this?
As a further clue to my identity, I may tell you that I am editor of this paper and English correspondent of Appleton's Journal.
Very faithfully yours, Will Williams.P.S. The magazine in question will contain contributions by well-known English and American authors.


