*p1753 03 24 cg The Fair Penitent. ^As17521122^, but Calista-Miss Macklin fourth appearance on any stage; first in that character; Sciolto-Macklin.*a1753 03 24 cg The Englishman in Paris. Principal parts-Macklin, Usher, Bransby, Collins, Anderson, Dunstall, Stoppelaer, White, Holtom, Mrs Macklin, Miss Macklin.*c1753 03 24 cg Benefit for $Macklin=. Afterpiece: A Comedy in 2 acts written by $Foote=, with <i>Prologue</i> and <i>Epilogue</i> by him. $Miss Macklin= did <i>Calista</i>r and a part in the farce,-all went well ($Cross=). A Comedy in answer to the <i>French Farce</i> <i>A Frenchman in London</i>, with a <i>Dialogue Prologue</i>, spoken by Macklin & his wife. <i>Epilogue</i> spoken by Miss Macklin. All by Foote. Part of Pit laid into the boxes, with an amphitheatre on stage, all at 5s. Full Prices (<i>Winston MS 8</i>). The Englishman at Paris has been better recev'd that I expected. $Garrick=, &c., &c....say kinder things of it than modesty will permit me to repeat. Upon the whole it was damnably acted, Macklin miserably imperfect in the words and in the character (a stain to Comedy). You might have seen what I meant,--an <i>English Buck</i>, by the power of dulness instantaneously transformed into an <i>Irish chairman</i>. $Miss Roach=, accompany'd by some frippery French woman occupy'd, to the no small scandal of the whole house, the $Prince='s box, whilst the $duchess of Bedford= &c., &c. were oblig'd to take up with seats upon the stage. The piece will be printed the 25th instant, which I will enclose to you ($Samuel Foote= to $Mr Delaval=, MS in <i>Folger Shakespeare Library</i>, written either 24 March, or, perhaps more likely, 24 April, since Foote states later in the letter he is leaving for foreign parts the first of May).