
Editor and Proprietor. New York City, Oct. 20, 1885. Dear Mr. Whitman:
Enclosed please find a check for $50 for the article in the November number of the
North American Review on "Slang in America." This is the very highest rate that is
paid for contributions, and exactly double what is paid for nine-tenths of the
articles that appear in it. I trust it is satisfactory. When will you have your
article on Lincoln ready? Mr. Rice is quite impatient
for it. If any question of pay stands in the way won't
you please state what you will ask for it, and then I shall have the matter off my
mind. I wish you
would answer this letter to-day, as I am about to start on a two weeks' trip to the
West.