as a writer and critic. Part of his archive was purchased by theatre and film producer and collector Messmore Kendall, who donated his collection of William Winter's papers and books along with Harry Houdini's archive to the University of Texas at Austin, where it is now available for research at the Harry Ransom Center. His enormously prolific legacy is also preserved at the Folger Shakespeare Library's Robert Young Collection on William Winter. In 1886, in commemoration of the death of his son, he founded a library at Staten Island Academy in Stapleton, New York. Works His writings include: The Convent, and other Poems (Boston, 1854) The Queen's Domain, and other Poems (1858) My Witness: a Book of Verse (1871) Sketch of the Life of Edwin Booth (1871) Thistledown: a Book of Lyrics (1878) The Trip to England (1879) Poems: Complete Edition (1881) The Jeffersons (1881) English Rambles and other Fugitive Pieces (Boston, 1884) Henry Irving (1885) The Stage Life of Mary Anderson (1886) Shakespeare's England (1888) Brief Chronicles (1889) Gray Days and Gold (1889) Old Shrines and Ivy (1892) Wanders, the Poems of William Winters (1892) Shadows of the Stage (1892, 1893, and 1894) The Life and art of Edwin Booth (1893) The Life and Art of Joseph Jefferson (1894) Brown Heath and Blue Bells (1896) Ada Rehan (1898) Other Days of the Stage (1908) Old Friends (1909) Poems (1909), definitive author's edition Life and Art of Richard Mansfield (1910) The Wallet of Time (1913) a Life of Tyrone Power (1913) Shakespeare on the Stage (two series, 1911–15) Vagrant Memories (1915) He has edited, with memoirs and notes: The Poems of George Arnold (Boston, 1866) Life, Stories, and Poems of John Brougham (1881) The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien'' (1881) References External links William Winter Papers at the Harry Ransom Center William Winter Library at the Harry Ransom Center Robert Young Collection on William Winter at the Folger Shakespeare Library Brief biography and two poems American biographers American essayists American literary critics Harvard Law School alumni People from Gloucester, Massachusetts People from Staten Island 1836 births 1917 deaths Historians from New York (state) Deaths from angina pectoris Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters