"I expect Dick to spend his Christmas with me. Katie is staying with a friend, but I expect her home next week. Mr. Parnell has done great harm in Ireland: six hundred ladies are in the Unions (parish work-houses), owing to non-payment of rent.
"Believe me to be,
"Always sincerely yours,
"Harriet F. Tylden."
C. A. DANA TO TILDEN
"'The Sun,' New York, Feb. 23, 1882.
"Dear Mr. Tilden,—I have been slow in thanking you for the box of Steinberger Cabinet, because I only wish to taste it in the most adequate society; and now, having had a suitable opportunity, I am prepared to say again that the wine is one of the very noblest products of nature, and that I am, as ever,
Sincerely yours,
"Charles A. Dana."
"This shows that two men at least knew Steinberger Cabinet of 1868, which cost $84 a case—gold—in 1870.