LORD LYTTON'S "MONEY."
[TO TEl EDITOR 07 THU "SPECTATOR."]
Sra,—As Lord Lytton's play, " Money," has been acted this week, perhaps an extract from a letter to.my mother, the late Mrs. A. S. Thomson, from him may interest some of your readers :-
" I am sincerely rejoiced that you liked the play, especially the first night, when I own I thought it badly acted. The principal comic part in the play, Sir J. Vesey, Strickland made a dead weight throughout, and Macready himself being a little un- nerved by his own afflictions, the whole thing was much too long. I hear it has gone more smoothly since. I am also pecu- liarly glad that you like Clara. I own I had an object in her delineation. It is so common fora young woman of a generous and romantic temper to think that there is something very noble in an imprudent marriage that I wished to show there were two sides of the question, two persons to think of."
He writes from Craven Cottage, and says he has been a sad
invalid for some months.—I am, Sir, &c., E. A.
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