I have a great deal of correspondence of one sort and another. I keep
no secretary, and my correspondence is with all sorts and conditions
of men. Only this morning, in the hurried moment before I left, I
wrote two letters, one to a descendant of Warwick the Kingmaker, and
the other to a little boy living in the back slums of Newport about a
football match. That is the sort of correspondence I like, for I like
to mix with all sorts and conditions of men and do what I can for
them.
_Foundation-Stone Laying, Presbyterian Church, Newport,
August 27th, 1895._