Asks for Winter's opinion of the play, "The Major" at the New Theatre Comique.

Praises Winter's tribute to Henry Clapp.

Thanks Winter for his support of the [Poetry?] Society and mentions that the Society has started a library of contemporaneous American poetry. Written on letterhead of Current Literature Publishing Co. and accompanied by an envelope addressed to Winter at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.

Willard tells Winter that "all England is mourning with America today"...presumably in reaction to William McKinley's death the day before.