William Steinway’s diary: “Receive a number of Cable dispatches congraulating me on my birthday. At 8 A.M. my Willie Theodore and Maud with bouquets of flowers come with Fräulein to my bed. I am seized with so terrible an attack of despair on seeing my beloved, now motherless children that I feel my blood stop in my veins, and am carried to the very brink of death. Nurse Brooks at once gives me stimulants, when at last I am able to weep and sob for quite a while.”