2.

LETTER of Grimm to Duchess of Sachsen-Gotha [OUR Duchess], dated 'Paris, 15th April, 1765:' not in printed _Correspondance de Grimm,_ but still in the Archives of Gotha, in company with a MS.

of MATINEES, probably the oldest extant (see,--in the GRENZBOTEN Periodical, Leipzig, 1863, pp.

473-484, 500-519,--K.
SAMWER, who is Chief MALLEUS of this new London moon-calf, and will inform the curious of every particular)]." MATINEES was first printed 1766 (no place), and seven or eight times since, in different Countries; twice or thrice over, as "an interesting new discovery:"-- very wearisome to this Editor; who read MATINEES (in poor LONDON print, that too) many years ago,--with complete satisfaction as to Matinees, and sincere wish not to touch it again even with a pair of tongs;--and has since had three "priceless MSS.

of it" offered him, at low rates, as a guerdon to merit.
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