Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to David Garrick, [circa 1768].

Concerning his discharge from Covent Garden Theatre by George Colman; explaining that he had been called to a meeting with a Mr. Younger and shown a letter from Colman claiming that Dibdin had behaved "Impudently and Impertinently"; saying that Colman had written further that "[b]ut that for my Wickedness in Endeavour to foment a Difference betwixt him and the other Managers I should not be considered as belonging to that Theatre after the Expiration of my Article"; writing that, after this meeting, he had applied to Garrick, since he considered himself "a Discarded Man"; stating for the record: "And so far from Enticing me away from Covent Garden (which I hear Mr. Colman reports you Did) all the Conversation we ever had on the subject Manifested how Cautious you would have been of Entering into any Engagement with me had you not Considered me as entirely free"; writing that even if Colman had not discharged him, "I certainly should have discharged myself"; describing how glad he is to be working for Garrick and saying "I am well convinced if I do not succeed at Drury Lane Theatre it will not be for want of the most friendly and obliging Instructions from you which I should be ungrateful to the last Degree if I did not (by the most assiduous and unwearied application) study to merit...".