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Derby July 5^th 1792

My dear H

As you seem so perfectly satisfied at my engaging not to visit the southern coast this summer, I trust a longer silence than usual will not affect you

Indeed as it is determined that we can no longer alleviate the sufferings of each other, in my idea it becomes the duty of each to impart them to the other, as little as possible. Upon this principle I have delayed writing to you till I could say I had fixed on a northern bathing place, & after much enquiry & much irresolution I have just made \choice/ of Parkgate, a retired scene near Chester. M.^rs Twigge was there the first summer I came into Derbyshire, & from her description, it appears the least exceptionable of any I have heard of, tho it is only an arm of the sea instead of the main body of Ocean which I most delight in - but the journey is shorter, & Newcastle is in the road to it. I shall therefore visit my pleasant friends the Hatrells (where Mrs. Heathcote is spending her summer) which will cheer & “light me on my way”. I shall also see M.^r Wedgewood & his agreeable daughter at Etruria & on my return it will be little, if any thing, out of my road to call at Buxton, as I shall then pay my visit to poor M.^rs Gladwin who writes very low indeed upon this fresh affliction. With seabathing & a change of scene I hope to recover health & spirits to feel more comfort myself & to administer more