(Addressed)

To
The Ho'd Mr. Will'm Robinson
_Recomende a Messieurs Tierney & Merry_[2]
_a Naples_.

(Memorandum indorsed)
_Ring just rec'd that of 22't Sept.
16th Oct'r. 1761_.

[Footnote 1: The name is not easy to be made out; but as far as it
is determinable by comparison of hand-writing, it is "Cruch." The
letter passed through the post-office.]

[Footnote 2: The part printed in _italics_ was added by some other
person than the writer of the letter.]

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CHARACTERS OF ACTORS IN CIBBER'S APOLOGY.


Reverting to a Query in your Second Number, p. 29, your correspondent
DRAMATICUS may rest assured that Colley Cibber's characters of actors
and actresses (his contemporaries and immediate predecessors) _first_
appeared in his _Apology_, 4to. 1740, and were transferred _verbatim_,
as far as I have been able to consult them, to the subsequent editions
of that very entertaining and excellent work. If Colley Cibber were not