“My courage is as great as you could wish, considering that I stand upon a shaking foundation. Every time Mr Kemble sees me, I perceive, or think I perceive, a kind of discontent, arising from want of determination in his countenance. I do not keep company with any of the actors, except in the green room.
“I wish when you have room in any letter that you would give me some news. I have not heard any of Mr Pavie and France’s proceedings since I left London. Let me know of mother’s health, &c., soon. Is A. Dyson gone to France?
“Monday.—The above was written on Saturday, since
which something of importance has occurred. I went this morning into the
pay-room to receive my money, and having got it, asked Mr Kemble’s advice relative to my
manner of travelling to London, whither we remove in the middle of this
week. ‘Why, really, Mr
Cooper, I think the best thing you can do is to go back
to Lon-
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“To-night I am one of Mrs Siddons’s train (dumb as usual) in the Mourning Bride. On Wednesday I am to be the second witch in Macbeth. Mr Kemble told me that if he had thought of it in time, I should have played Malcolm, and desired me to learn it. On Thursday I believe I shall begin my march to Lancaster, arriving there Sunday night. I shall stay there a week, and then for Sheffield.”
