My dearMrs. Clarke,—I enclose the part I
spoke of in “Used
Up.” Will you meet the rest of the Dramatis Personæ here, to read
the play and compare the parts on Monday evening at 7.
Faithfully yours always,
The Implacable Manager.
Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke [née Novello] (1809-1898)
The daughter of the musician Vincent Novello, she married Charles Cowden Clarke in 1828
and wrote works on Shakespeare, including The Complete Concordance to
Shakespeare (1845).