He will not be able to attend the dinner in honor of William Winter and sends instead, his recognition of Winter's "fame" and his "power to charm us." Stedman follows with several lines of verse beginning: What avail fellow-minstrels, our crotchets and staves. On letterhead of Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N.Y. Addressed to Lord as Secretary of the Lotos Club.
Boult writes on behalf of E.C. Stedman regarding which poems Winter would like to include in an anthology. Signed from Ellen M. Boult, Secretary. On letterhead of Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N.Y. Addressed to Winter in New Brighton, Staten Island.
(1) Postcard dated October 28, 1892; Stedman has sent Winter his book and will also complete another set. (2) Dated October 16, 1900; Regarding the "big New England Society," which Stedman has become Vice President of. (3) Dated May 22, 1907; Stedman discusses the death of Albert H. Smyth.
(1) Stedman describes his same yearning for England since youth, that Winter has and his travels; (2) mentions articles in the Tribune on Curtis and Tennyson which were "enough to set the old Tribune on its literary feet again." He also refers to the current Presidential election in which Harrison and Reid are running; (3) Stedman mentions attending a reading of Twelfth night by Horace Howard Furness; (4) an autograph poem sent to Winter. First line: Call us "grim," "immoral," "naughty." With (4) is an accompanying envelope addressed to Winter at the Tribune Editorial Rooms, Tribune Building, New York City.
Stedman's father has come across some war poems by N.G. Shepherd and asks if Winter has any information on the poet. On letterhead of "A library of American literature," Office of Charles L. Webster & Co., Publishers, New York.