Bob, I learned something... Magee's was a retail Paper and Envelope Store at the address shown in the letterhead. I suspect, then, that this is a pre-printed, decorative and patriotic "pad of paper" that they sold to the general public. James Magee was a Publisher, and here is another example of a work of his:
I suspect the "legalese" at the top is simply him entering his copyright information on the artwork itself, as also printed at the bottom of this other example:
Magee, so I have learned, was also a prolific publisher of the Civil War era patriotic covers/cachets, so there is indeed a philatelic connection. Some examples of his covers are in this Exhibit:
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/media/loc.rbc.amss.as111530/001a.tif/1495
I suspect the "legalese" at the top is simply him entering his copyright information on the artwork itself, as also printed at the bottom of this other example:
https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/635/151/1183151635.0.l.jpg
Magee, so I have learned, was also a prolific publisher of the Civil War era patriotic covers/cachets, so there is indeed a philatelic connection. Some examples of his covers are in this Exhibit:
https://www.njpostalhistory.org/media/pdf/NJCWPats.pdf