He cut a slit in a box in his house and nailed up the box.

Whenever a letter came for him, he'd read the postmark and say "Baltimore--Baltimore--there isn't anybody in Baltimore that I care to hear from." Then he'd drop the letter unopened through the slit into the box.

"Philadelphia?
I have no friend in Philadelphia"-- into the box, unopened.

When he died, the big box was nearly full of unopened letters.

When I get to Washington again, I'm going to look for a big box that must now be nearly full of my unopened letters and telegrams.
W.H.P.
The real reason why the Ambassador wished to remain in London was to assist in undoing a great wrong which the United States had done itself and the world.