Will you be kind enough to forward my very best acknowledgments to Sir Gerard Noeel, both for his good wishes and the more tangible proof of interest he sent me (a considerable payment for a box on my benefit night)?  I am sorry you were alarmed on Monday.  You alarmed us all; you looked so exceedingly ill that I feared something very serious had occurred to distress and vex you.  Thank you for your critique upon my Constance; both my mother and myself were much delighted with it; it was every way acceptable to me, for the censure I knew to be deserved, and the praise I hoped was so, and they were blended in the very nicest proportions.  We dine at six to-morrow.  Lady Cork insisted upon five, but that was really too primitive, because, as the dandy said, “we cannot eat meat in the morning.”

Ever yours most truly,
F. A. K.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, March 30, 1831. 
DEAR MRS. JAMESON,

Thank you for your money; it is necessary to be arithmetical if one means to be economical, and I receive your tribute with more pleasure than that of a duchess.  I sometimes hear people lament that they have anything to do with money.  I do not at all share that feeling; money, after all, only represents other things.  If one has much, it is always well to look to one’s expenditure, or the much will become much less; and if one has little, and works hard for it, I cannot understand being above receiving the price of one’s labor.  In all kinds “the laborer is worthy of his hire,” and I think it very foolish to talk as if we set no value upon that which we value enough to toil for.  With regard to the tickets you wish me to send you, I must refer you to the theater; for, finding that my wits and temper were both likely to be lost in the box-book, I sent the whole away to Mr. Notter, the box-book keeper, to whom you had better apply.

Yours ever truly,
F. A. K.

This and the preceding note refer to my benefit, of which, according to a not infrequent custom with the more popular members of the profession, I had undertaken to manage the business details, but found myself, as I have here stated, quite incompetent to encounter the worry of applications for boxes, and seats, and special places, etc., etc., and have never since, in the course of my whole public career, had anything to do with the management of my own affairs.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, March, 1831. 
DEAR MRS. JAMESON,

I was not at home yesterday afternoon when you sent to our house, and all the evening was so busy studying that I had not time to answer your dispatch.  Thank you for your last year’s letter; it is curious to look back, even to so short a time, and see how the past affected one when it was the present.  I remember I was very happy and comfortable at Bath, the critics notwithstanding.  Thank you, too, for your more recent epistle.  I am grateful for, and gratified by, your minute