"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?'"
[Footnote 33: Miss Foote's first appearance, which we witnessed
together.]
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