May Horse Show Dinner,
May 4th, 1893.
"I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but I cannot always dine with an assembly of working men."
[A CONTRAST IN CORRESPONDENCE.]
I have a great deal of correspondence of one sort and another. I keep no secretary, and my correspondence is with all sorts and conditions of men. Only this morning, in the hurried moment before I left, I wrote two letters, one to a descendant of Warwick the Kingmaker, and the other to a little boy living in the back slums of Newport about a football match. That is the sort of correspondence I like, for I like to mix with all sorts and conditions of men and do what I can for them.
Foundation-Stone Laying, Presbyterian Church, Newport,
August 27th, 1895.