Addressed "My Viola, my own dear baby girl" (1) and "My own dear little girl" (2). Both signed from "Burro."

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.

Written from various locations including New York; St. Louis; Cold Spring, New York; Boston; Easton, Pennsylvania; Niagara Falls, Canada; Toronto, Canada; Bernardsville, New Jersey. (1) an invitation to an event at the Berkley Lyceum, addressed to "Master and Mistress Winter"; (4) includes a clipping announcing Viola Allen's retirement from the stage, dated July 28, 1901, and an accompanying envelope addressed to Winter in Mentone, CA; (14) is a printed visiting card of Viola Allen, New York, with a letter to Winter written on both sides, dated simply Sunday.

The letters are of a friendly nature and many concern family and theatre-related matters. On letterhead or addressed from Scarborough-on-Hudson, New York; Great Barrington, [Massachusetts]; Bernardsville, New Jersey; New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard; New York, New York; and the Sanatorium Neues Kurhaus, Bad Kissingen, Germany. (3) date annotated in William Winter's hand; some items undated.

Offering congratulations to his daughter on the birth of his grand-daughter Rosamund. Signed "Ever your Burro." Addressed from the Bay Side Hotel, Bay City, Orange Co.

(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."