WYNDHAM TOWERS

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich




TO EDWIN BOOTH.


MY DEAR BOOTH:

In offering these verses to you, I beg you to treat them (as you
have many a time advised a certain lord chamberlain to treat the
players) not according to their desert. "Use them after your own
honor and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit is in your
bounty."

These many years your friend and comrade,

T. B. ALDRICH.




NOTE

The motif of the story embodied in the following poem was crudely
outlined in a brief sketch printed in an early collection of the
authors verse, and subsequently cancelled for a purpose not until