Can you tell me if Mr.Flint be the author of _George Mason, or the Young Backwoodsman_?
I think that he is; and whether the name of a young satirical writer be Sams or Sands?
Your answering these questions will stead me much, and I am sure that you will answer them if you can.
"Now to your kind questions.

I am getting ready a fifth and last volume of _Our Village_ as fast as I can, though with pain and difficulty, having hurt my left hand so much by a fall from an open carriage that it affects the right, and makes writing very uncomfortable to me.

And I am in a most perplexed state about my opera, not knowing whether it will be produced this season or not, in consequence of Captain Polhill and his singers having parted.

This would not have happened had my coadjutor the composer kept to his time.

And I have still hopes that when the opera be [shall, omitted probably] taken in (the music is even now not finished), a sense of interest will bring the parties together again.