[List of Letters]

[97 — To the Rev. John Becher]

Newstead Abbey, Notts., Sept. 14, 1808.

My dear Becher, — I am much obliged to you for your inquiries, and shall profit by them accordingly.

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am going to get up a play here; the hall will constitute a most admirable theatre. I have settled the

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and can do without ladies, as I have some young friends who will make tolerable substitutes for females, and we only want three male characters, beside Mr. Hobhouse and myself, for the play we have fixed on, which will be the

Revenge