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New York, March 6th, 1902
Miss May Wright Sewall
Indianapolis, Ind.
My dear Miss Sewall:
Both of your letters are at hand, and I regret they come so late in the season. I am just leaving New York for the West Indies for a brief trip, and on my return go to my seashore home, not to return to New York until next Fall, so I will be unable to see Miss Waldemar or to sit for the sculptor.
Should Mrs Johnson desire to make a bust of me for her own studio, as several sculptors are talking of doing, I would suggest her obtaining a set of my photographs recently taken from Marceau 29th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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it would be impossible for me to give her struck-out permission inserted a commission at present. There are so many ways for money to go and do more good, than in a marble bust of myself, it seems to me.
I have not the influence among the theatrical circle which many people imagine I possess. I should not know how to go to work to obtain a hearing for anyone, before the august gentleman you mention. I have never met Mr. Winter and do not like his dramatic criticisms. I think they are narrow, cold and unjust frequently.
Allan Dale I have only met once, for a very few minutes; and Mr Belasco is so struckoutvariableinserted [barrelled?] about, that it is impossible for any one to meet him. I never have, yet I should think, armed with a letter from Ellen Terry, that Miss
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Waldemar might obtain a hearing before these gentlemen:
I wrote a letter to Mr. Belasco about a younglady here in the city in whom I was interested some five weeks ago; it only reached as far as his secretary last week, but some hope was held out that it would eventually reach Mr. Belasco's eye.
Regretting I cannot do something for both of your friends, as I would at least try to do were I to remain in the city, I am
sincerely yours, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
P.S. I return the copy of Ellen Terry's letter as you may want to use it elsewhere.