“Saturday, Noon.
“My Dear Sir,
“‘Everything is for the best,’ is a
comforting maxim which I sometimes try to think a true one—it has been so in
the accident to the Eyehead,* for I think the new one is an alteration greatly
for the better.
“I have seen Braham, who assures me he will do his
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utmost to join us on Fryday [
sic
in orig.] next—and I know you will forget what is passed, and meet the Melodist
in perfect harmony. I have also asked Harley and
Tom Cooke, so we shall have a great treat, and you,
the General, a capital corps to command.
“The Letter B— wrote you was meant as a perfectly
good-humoured bit of irony.”
John Braham (1777 c.-1856)
English tenor who began his career at the Covent Garden and Drury Lane theaters; he
assisted Isaac Nathan in setting Byron's
Hebrew Melodies.
William Kitchiner (1778-1827)
English miscellaneous writer and epicure; he published
The Cook's
Oracle (1817) and other works. He was a friend of William Jerdan.
