Warton writes that the transcript will be made tomorrow and Malone will have it on Monday morning.

Warton refers to his having heard Mr. Wise, Radcliffe librarian, speak of his journey to Stratford ca. 1720 and of the anecdotes he there learned about Shakespeare.

Warton writes that he has "an authentic copy of Theobald's Argument with the Tonsons about his Shakespeare." He can send a transcript if Malone thinks it will be of use in his new Edition.

Warton writes that the anonymous notes in the glossary are of the late Mr. T. Hawkins. Several of his notes which appeared first in Johnson's appendix were now written for the glossary of the last Oxford edition. He writes that "Collins' memory failed him in the information he gave me about the chemical romance : that information however seems to show, that there was some romance which Shakespeare had made the grand work of his plot for the Tempest."

Discusses the sources for certain episodes in "The merchant of Venice."