 Early on, the aspiring poet wrote a special piece in honor of his senior friend—called "Dregătorul" ("The Mandarin"), it is included in one of Bogdan-Pitești's albums.That accord degenerated during the late 1910s, to the point where Caragiale, whose diary spoke of Bogdan-Pitești's homosexuality in dismissive terms (calling him "a blusterer of the anti-natural vice"), laid out a plan to loot the Știrbey-Vodă Street villa.According to the same author, Bogdan-Pitești turned to passive homosexuality because he was impotent.