Requests that Reed gets the story on which Julia is founded inserted in The European magazine. Malone encloses a short introduction to this piece (no longer with item) which was printed incorrectly in the St. James's Chronicle.

Requests that Reed get the account of the new tragedy, which appeared in the St. James' Chronicle, in the theatrical article of the European magazine. Malone disparages critics of of various publications, claiming that they have "a particular spleen to Mr. Johnson and are so illiterate as probably not to have read one of the plays of Shakespeare."

Would like to know when The merchant of Venice and The winter's tale will go to press.

First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.