Autograph Letters Signed from T. Allston Brown, New York, to William Winter


Book Description

(1) Autograph letter signed on letterhead of Col. T. Allston Brown, New York City; (2) a manuscript letter signed from T. Allston Brown to Winter, written on a typed letter signed from G.W. Venable to T. Allston Brown. Brown asks Winter to answer the letter from Venable. An annotation on the verso in Winter's hand: "Col. T.A. Brown [of?] G.W. Venable. Ans'd April 7 1903."




Autograph Letter Signed from William Jefferson Winter to Viola R. Winter Brown


Book Description

Winter is terribly distressed by the recipient's illness and asks her set down anything and everything she remembers their father saying, on any subject. The second leaf contains two stanzas, in Jefferson Winter's hand, written by William Winter during an Arts Club dinner to him. First line: When youthful hopes Elysian. Letter is addressed to Vola and signed from Billy.













Autograph Letter Signed from William Winter, New York, to William Oliver Henshaw, Boston


Book Description

Discussing family (Lizzie and Percy are well and charming) and acquaintance news. Encloses several of his Albion Dramatic Papers (Nos. 2-7, out of 14), which Noll and Josie might like to read, and mentions the enclosure of a "little autograph poem" [the papers and poem are not extant]. With two drawings by Winter (a self-portrait, "W. W. aged 50" and "W. W. in his place of sepulchre" and accompanying envelope addressed to Henshaw in care of Messrs. A.S. & J. Brown, Boston, Massachusetts. Letter addressed "My dear Noll." MS pencil math annotations on verso of last page.