“The Prince desires
you will meet at dinner here on Saturday the Eighteenth instant at six
o’Clock Lord [illegible] and Sheridan. I hope I need not add how happy your
presence will make me. I remain
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Anglo-Irish playwright, author of The School for Scandal (1777),
Whig MP and ally of Charles James Fox (1780-1812).