Address panel: "T. Mackinlay Esqr/ Messrs Dalmaine & Co/ 20 Soho Square". Another address has been entirely crossed out.
Docketed.
Thomas Dalmaine was one of the partners in Goulding & Dalmaine, a noted firm of music publishers. Thomas Mackinlay was his nephew and managed the firm on Dalmaine's retirement.
With postmarks.
Drawing Mackinlay's attention to the fact that one of Bayly's most popular songs, "The Old House at Home", has recently been republished without his name on the title page; writing that until recently he has been "too dangerously ill... to care much for name or fame, fully expecting that the former would soon take its lasting place on a tombstone, but now that I am recovering health & strength, I think is [sic] as well to write to you to beg that this oversight (for it can be nothing else) be set right"; punning on the composer Edward Loder's name: "She is a sweet song & is well graced by the name of her composer 'Loder', but by adding the name of 'Haynes Bayly' as the author, you surely would not over Load her"; asking Mackinlay to send him, to the Athenaeum Club, two copies of the corrected score and to send his wife "a copy of your pretty Bijou for the new year"; telling him that he has written several new songs during his confinement.