Autograph letter signed : place not identified, to Mr. Davis, 1798 January 19.

Apologizing for any displeasure regarding the sale of copies of "the Songs of Blue Beard" in the theater; saying that, not having received any word about preparing them, he was under the impression that the management had simply forgotten to order copies, "and conceiving Mr Colman's interest injured by the sale being retarded, I put myself, at so late an hour, as seven o'clock in the evening, to great inconvenience by having a hundred worked, and wrote immediately to Mr C to beg that I might in future be better authorized, and to suggest to him that the price was an uncommon one, as the women who retail them, said they could have sold more than double the number at the usual sum of Sixpence"; enclosing a copy of Colman's response (no longer with the letter); writing that he leaves up to Davis the decision whether to "alter the price, or over-run them to another half sheet, which may be easily done, and if you have no objection should wish them to be stitched at my house, when [where?] I can see that no time is lost and will send them to you as fast as possible"; saying that he has just heard from Colman, who thinks the price should not be changed; discussing the number of copies printed, delivered and sold, and how this should be handled going forward.