Taylor sends season greetings and hopes Winter received the Shakespeare calendar this time. With envelope addressed to Winter.

Asks if there will be a published account of the Lotos Club dinner for William Winter. On letterhead of 333 West 22d St. Annotated by Winter on verso: "Douglas

Winter praises the genius of the poet Bryant. Refers to Longfellow and Willis. Addressed from Fort Hill, New Brighton, Staten Island.

Winter writes that he does not remember that he ever saw a copy of the publication to which the recipient's letter referred. For many years he has avoided readi

Compliments him on his article about Oliver Twist in the Herald. Is collecting William Winter's Dunlap Society books. Awaits the return of two Siddons engraving