(1) Winter thanks Stedman for the portrait of himself he sent; (2) thanks him for the book he has sent.

Stedman remarks on Winter's The Jeffersons.

Stedman congratulates Winter on his honorary degree from Brown and thanks him for the copy of Shadows of the stage.

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.

(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 discusses Winter's metrical translation of Paul Heyse's Mary o Magdala