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.”