“It has been a great honor to sit at your feet the past few months--to go to school to you. An infinite pleasure, also, to have seen you work and known you. “If the play gets over, the great measure of the success will be yours. If it fails, the fault will be with the material which came to you. “Whatever the issue is, I want now to thank you for your many personal courtesies, for your enthusiasm and your friendship. Hereafter, when some would-be author ‘hits the ceiling’ at some change you suggest in his ’script, please have him get me on the telephone and I will cheerfully tell him how many kinds of a d---- fool he is not to know a master touch and not to appreciate the Master’s interest. “May you be preserved to the Theatre for a long, long time. “Affectionately, “_George Scarborough._” The scope and variety of his labor as an author are impressively signified in the following partial list of his writings: THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF DAVID BELASCO. (Note.--The dates given in the following table refer to the years in which the plays specified _were written_,--and, therefore, in some instances, they differ from the dates given in Chronology, and elsewhere, which refer to _presentation_ of the plays.) JUVENILE EFFORTS. “Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.” “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.” Angel in Hell,” “An Barmaid’s Revenge; or, The Fatal Corkscrew,” “The (burlesque). Bohemian Girl,” “The (with music). Bronze Statue,” “The. Butcher’s Revenge; or, The Seven Buckets of Blood,” “The (burlesque). Death of Benedict Arnold,” “The. Dying Boy’s Last Christmas,” “The. “East Lynne” (burlesque). Hanging of Nathan Hale,” “The. “Jim Black; or, The Regulator’s Revenge” (_his first play_). Roll of the Drum,” “The (before 1869). Signing of the Declaration of Independence,” “The. “Spiritland.” Trovatore,” “Il (with music from the opera of that name). WRITTEN BEFORE 1882-’83 (BELASCO’S NEW YORK CAREER BEGAN IN SEPTEMBER, 1882). Ace of Spades,” “The (1877--or earlier). “American Born” (based on “British Born”: 1882). Assommoir,” “L’ (“Drink”: based on Zola’s novel: 1879). Belle Russe,” “La (1880-’81). “Bleak House” (from the novel--about July, 1875). “Capitola” (a version of “The Hidden Hand”: 187[6?]). “Cherry and Fair Star” (revision of the old spectacle so named: 187--). “Chums” (1879--see “Hearts of Oak”). Christmas Night; or, The Convict’s Return,” “The (1877). Creole,” “The (based on Adolphe Belot’s story, “L’Article 47”: 1879-’80). Cricket on the Hearth,” “The (from Dickens’ “Christmas Story”: 1877-’78). Curse of Cain,” “The (with Peter Robertson: 1882). “David Copperfield” (from the novel--before 1878). Doll Master,” “The (1874-’75?).