Autograph Letters Signed from Donald Robertson, New York, to William Winter


Book Description

(1) Asks Winter to look at three sonnets and hopes he will find a place for them in his dramatic notes. On letterhead of the Hotel Viano, New York; (2) Robertson writes that bad bookings and bad business have compelled him to close his season for a time and asks Winter if the enclosed sonnets "are worth anything to the magazine" [no longer here]. On letterhead of the Third Annual Tour, Donald Robertson and Miss Brandon Douglas; addressed from Taylor Ave. & East 184th St., New York.




Autograph Letter Signed from Donald Robertson, Chicago, to William Winter


Book Description

Robertson gives Winter a resume of his season. List of plays and dramatic poems: The Miser by Molière, The triumph of youth by Edouard Pailleron, Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, The coming of peace by Gerhart Hauptmann, The intruding widow by Charles Lamb, In a balcony by Robert Browning, A blot in the scutcheon by Robert Browning, The intruder by Maurice Maeterlinck, A night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice, The law by Mary d'Este, The gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Keep your own secret by Calderón, Sigurd Slembe by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, The inspector by Gogol, As the leaves by Guiseppe Giacosa, Madman or saint by Jose Echegaray, and A curious mishap by Carlo Goldoni. On letterhead of Donald Robertson's Company of players.




Letters Signed from Donald Nicholson, New York, to William Winter, New York


Book Description

Letters written to Winter in his capacity as a writer for the Tribune. Includes 6 typed letters signed and one autograph letter signed. On letterhead of the New York tribune. Addressed to Winter at 17 Third Avenue, Fort Hill, New Brighton, S.I. or P.O. Box 24, Mentone, San Bernardino Co., California.




Autograph Letters Signed from Peter Robertson to William Winter


Book Description

(1) Robertson hopes Winter can pay San Francisco a visit; he is sorry to have missed Winter's daughter's calling. On embossed letterhead of the Bohemian Club, San Francisco and addressed to Winter in Mentone; (2) He is sorry to hear of Winter's illness and hope it will prove only temporary. On letterhead of Boyes Hot Springs in Sonoma County.










Autograph Letters Signed from William Winter, New York, to J.B. Pond


Book Description

Some letters on letterhead of the New York tribune and one on letterhead of the Staten Island Academy. (6) and (8) indicate "Dictated" on first leaf and appear to be in the hand of William Jefferson Winter.




Autograph Letters Signed from William Winter, New York, to Beatrice Mansfield


Book Description

(1) addressed from "Home" and dated June 29, 1899; refers to a possible production of "Timon" with Richard Mansfield; (2) on letterhead of The Arthur Winter Memorial Library, The Staten Island Academy New York; Winter thanks her for the books she has sent to the library commemorating his son.