So, thank you very much, indeed, for to say what you did seriously, over your own name, took a lot of courage, and for that daring, and for liking the same things I do, I thank you many times.
Sincerely yours, RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
In reading this over, I find all I seem to have done in it is to complain because no one, but yourself and myself liked "Macklin." What I wanted to say is, that I am very grateful for the article, for the appreciation, although I don't deserve it, and for your temerity in saying so many kind things.

Nothing that has been written about what I have written has ever pleased me so much.
R.H.D.
In the spring of 1906 while Richard was on a visit to Providence, R.
I., Henry W.Savage produced a play by Jesse Lynch Williams and my brother was asked to assist at rehearsals, a pastime in which he found an enormous amount of pleasure.

The "McCloy" mentioned in the following letter was the city editor of The Evening Sun when my brother first joined the staff of that paper as a reporter.
NEW YORK, May 4, 1906.
DEAR NORA: I left Providence Tuesday night and came on to New York yesterday.
Savage and Williams and all were very nice about the help they said I had given them, and I had as much fun as though it had been a success I had made myself, and I didn't have to make a speech, either.
Yesterday I spent in the newspaper offices gathering material from their envelopes on Winston Churchill, M.P.who is to be one of my real Soldiers of Fortune.

He will make a splendid one, in four wars, twice made a question; before he was 21 years old, in Parliament, and a leader in BOTH parties before he was 36.

In the newspaper offices they had a lot of fun with me.