Includes letters written by Ring and Ellis Abbott Lardner during their courtship. Also letters to family and friends. A number of Ring Lardner's letters (1907-1910) are in verse and are addressed to Wilma A. Johnson (later Wilma Ostrander), a Niles, Mich., friend, 1907-1910. They contain much information on Lardner's journalistic career and the fortunes of the Chicago White Sox. Later letters are addressed to members of the Abbott family and the Lardner children; many concern Lardner's song writing, his health, and other matters.