Belasco and Charles Frohman were intimate friends during many years. Their amicable relations continued until some time after the Theatrical Syndicate became operative, and, although then temporarily interrupted, were renewed before Frohman’s death. In the Spring of 1893 Belasco, conscious of crippling restraint in his activities in theatrical business life, became dissatisfied with Frohman, particularly as to his managerial connection with the presentment of Mrs. Carter in “Miss Helyett.” Some disquietude occurred, but no serious dissension arose, as the following letter, showing Frohman in an amiable light, sufficiently indicates. This epistle relates to negotiations concerning possible productions in London of “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” “The Heart of Maryland” (then unfinished), and “The Younger Son,”--the latter being meant by “your new play that goes on here at the Empire.” A CHARLES FROHMAN LETTER. (_Charles Frohman to David Belasco._) “Empire Theatre, New York, “June 15, 1893. “MY DEAR DAVE:-- “I have not written you in reply to your second letter to me, hoping that you might run in and see me. Roeder tells me that you are very busy on your play and could not say when you could run over to see me. “First: I wish to say that I have made no arrangements in London for the production of ’The Girl I Left Behind Me,’ or the new play. The points in this regard I prefer giving you personally. “Second: I extremely regret the several censures you have made in respect to my end of the work in connection with ’Miss Helyett.’ I do not think that you have given me credit for the absolute personal interest in the matter that I have taken, as far as you are concerned, and which went far beyond the business part of the enterprise. I think, viewing the fact that the opera itself did not make a sensation, that I stayed with you, in the matter, to the last, and should have continued, no matter how long we were together in the thing. Whether or not you have thought over these facts, and my determination in the matter, when you see the thing from the start, I don’t know. I felt that you did.