He is glad the recipient is enjoying Southend; he extemporises on the beauty of taste divorced from reason; he is glad Elizabeth is bathing and allows the recipient to get fat, anything "short of Mrs. St. Leger"; tomorrow he goes to Norbury for the funeral of [
Mr. Lock]; the Miss Lees are a consolation,
Harriet has brought part of a play with her from the "German's Tale", it should be performed at
Covent Garden by
Kemble and his brother
Charles; Harriet and [
Sophia] are close but competitive; Fanny Mayow[?] has informed him that
Campbell has clashed with
Fuseli who will not support the plan; he enclosed a nice letter from the
George Huntingford; begs to be remembered with love to Miss Howard and Herman Cosey.