TO MR. MOORE.
"Will you and Rogers come to my box at Covent, then? I shall be there, and none else—or I won't be there, if you twain would like to go without me. You will not get so good a place hustling among the publican boxers, with damnable apprentices (six feet high) on a back row. Will you both oblige me and come,—or one—or neither—or, what you will?
"P.S. An' you will, I will call for you at half-past six, or any time of your own dial."
TO MR. MOORE.
"I have gotten a box for Othello to-night, and send the ticket for your friends the R——fes. I seriously recommend to you to recommend to them to go for half an hour, if only to see the third act—they will not easily have another opportunity. We—at least, I—cannot be there, so there will be no one in their way. Will you give or send it to them? it will come with a better grace from you than me.
"I am in no good plight, but will dine at * *'s with you, if I can. There is music and Covent-g.
"Will you go, at all events, to my box there afterwards, to see a début of a young 16[33] in the 'Child of Nature?'"