63 - To David Garrick, [London, 25 December 1773]
Summary
See headnote to previous letter.
Goldsmith gratefully acknowledges Garrick's willingness to accept Newbery’s note as per his request in the preceding letter. Balderston includes a brief note, in the form of a bill of exchange, which accompanied the letter. The current location of the note is unknown. It reads:
‘Sir, 28 Jany. ￡60 0 0 December 25th, 1773.
One month after date pay the bearer the sum of sixty pounds and place it to the account of Sir your humble servant
Oliver Goldsmith.To David Garrick Esqr |Adelphi.’
The bill is signed ‘Dec. 25, 1773 Accepted—D. Garrick’. Goldsmith's signature is on the back, along with those of Charles Ekerobh Mall, and Josiah Shaw, for B. St. Moyen Esqr. The date, ‘28 Jany.’ is likely to have been the date of payment.
Our copy-text is the manuscript in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. The date is determined by the date of Goldsmith's note accompanying the letter.
My Dear Friend
I thank you! I wish I could do something to serve you. I shall have a comedy for you in a season or two at farthest that I believe will be worth your acceptance, for I fancy I will make it a fine thing. You shall have the refusal. I wish you would not take up Newbery's note, but let Waller teize him, without however coming to extremities, let him haggle after him and he will get it. He owes it and will pay it. Im sorry you are ill. I will draw upon you one month after date for sixty pound, and your acceptance will be ready money part of which I want to go down to Barton with. May God preserve my honest little man for he has my heart.
ever Oliver Goldsmith.- Type
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- Information
- The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith , pp. 135 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018