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Derby July 22^d 1792

My dear H

I expected indeed with great impatience an account of your visit to Cowper which must have been very interesting, & I shall continue to do so; but as I know you seldom like writing letters but on a sunday I must request you to direct your next to me at Thomas Hattrell’s Esq^.re Newcastle Staffordshire where I mean to arrive on Tuesday se’ennight & to spend three nights in my road to Park-gate. I hope M.^r Wedgewood & his daughter will be at home but if they are not I suppose I can see the house as well as the Pottery as they are social neighbours to the Hattrells & I had a most cordial invitation to Etruria from the whole family whom I spent an evening with this winter at D.^r Darwins, as I believe I told you