In this message I am charged with neglecting your interests. This is a shock to me, because when one neglects his trust, he is dishonest. This is the first time I have ever been so accused, and I am wondering if you inspired the message. I think it important that you should know.
Being adjured by one of the family to take more exercise:
I drove out to Richmond. Then I walked a mile. Now I hope you'll be satisfied.
To his sisters (he lived then at the Waldorf, but joined the family at a weekly dinner up-town):
I am sending you a cook-book by Oscar of this hotel. You may find some use for it.
When he came to the next weekly dinner he was offered several choice dishes prepared from Oscar's recipes. "I see my mistake," he said. "I wanted my usual home dinner. You give me what I receive all the time at the hotel."
To Alfred Sutro, in London:
Give us something full of situations, and we will give you a bully time again in America.
To William Seymour, his stage-manager, about a performance of one of his plays:
When you rehearse to-day will you try and get the old woman out of too much crying; get some smiles, and stop her screwing up her face every time she speaks. Of course, it's nervousness, but it looks as if she were ill.