The Note of Hand, or Trip to Newmarket is a 1774 comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland.

A farce it was the final play performed by David Garrick at the Drury Lane Theatre in London before his retirement.

[1] The original London cast included John Palmer as Revell, Samuel Cautherley as Rivers, Thomas Jefferson as Elder Rivers, John Moody as O'Connor MacCormuck, William Palmer as Francis, James William Dodd as Sapling, James Wrighten as Putty and Susan Greville as Mrs Cheveley.

The play mocked some of the leading Whig politicians of the era such as Charles Fox and the Duke of Devonshire.

[2] Sheridan went on to create a comedy character Sir Fretful Plagiary closely based on Cumberland in the 1779 play The Critic.