Autograph letter signed : Liverpool, to David Garrick, 1775 August 16.

Concerning a request for an increase in salary and replying to Garrick's letter; saying "I have noted the contents of your letter very heedfully, and I am very unhappy to find that instead of complying with what I thought a modest request, of a small addition to my little sallery, that any character of mine should be given to Mr. Yates who, (you must pardon my vanity , when I positively assert) is not a better Actor, however fortunate he may be to have a better income. I have gone thro every stage of your business with great cheerfullness, since that gentleman meanly left you; and, I think it very hard to give him up my honest earn't laurels without a recompence. Indeed sir, I feel myself highly honor'd by your so civily requesting what you can command; and, I hope my behavior and attachment to your interest, since I have had the honor to serve you, will so far prevail on you, as not to insist on my being of your company at the expence of my happiness. Shuter is a deplorable object! but I think he gets better notwithstanding his calamity, he is very profligate, and wicked; he has been but once on the stage these six weeks. I hope sir, you will not think me troublesome to request your ans'r, and be assur'd whatever fate attends me, you shall never want my hearty wishes, for your health and long life."