A letter to the editor detailing the existence of a Dante Society in San Francisco Bay.
"(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
In your issue for June 1, the article upon " Dante in
America " suggests the publication of an interesting
fact. About San Francisco Bay is a settlement of Italian
fishermen whose condition is apparently without an aspir-
ation other than to have a supply of the black bread they
eat and the sour wine they drink ; yet these people sup-
port a society for the study of Dante.
One wonders whether a similar organization could be
found among English miners, for a knowledge of their
great Shakespeare!
KATHARINE MERRILL GRAYDON.
Berkeley, Cal., August 15, 1897"
