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David Garrick

"Letter from DAVID GARRICK, Esq. to Miss Younge, whilst at Bristol, on her return from Ireland in the Year 1771." From "Hampton July 4th [1771]." And "[Directed] Miss Younge, Belonging to the Theatre, King-street, Bristol" (31.236).

This is letter 637 in The Letters of David Garrick, ed. by David M. Little and George M. Kahrl (1963), 3 vols continuously paged, pp. 745-746. Little and Kahrl print from a MS. with a hole "affecting two pages." I shall give the line references on p. 746 and supply the correct reading from the EM

for the bracketed, conjectural readings. L. 18, own interest; l. 19, would wish to play; l. 20, I shall perhaps be; l. 29, Your sincere friend and warm well-wisher; l. 32, character; ll. 33-34, your first appearance in. The direction is not in Little and Kahrl.