Autograph letter signed : Paris, to R. W. Elliston, 1822 November 11.

Concerning his compensation for translations of plays and arguing that he should be paid more; saying "I twice asked distinctly what you would give for rough translations, because I knew that in these cases it is always best to understand each other before hand - & by a rough translation I meant it literally so - not with all the explanatory matter I added to this, and which you could only obtain from some one on the spot here...For Ali Pacha and a hasty copy of the Galley Slaves [John Howard] Payne receive £220 from C[ovent] G[arden]...Had you been speedy & explicit in your answer to my question on this matter you might have had the piece three weeks at least before you wrote for it, and thus taken a long advance of the other house. In a word I must know what I am to expect for extraordinary exertions, or really I can pass my time more agreeably in other ways. Let me add that I might have had this thing myself at C.G. had I not considered myself bound not to work against you;" setting forth questions about work in the future; discussing, at length, issues of various copyrights; adding, in a postscript, that he is about to begin a new play in three acts "of which great expectations are entertained" and with an additional postscript "...I will not exert myself unless adequately remunerated - if I am, I will - and this is all fair."