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furnished with separate rooms which will be a great requisition of comfort to me, I trust tho I have ever found it dangerous boasting for the day after I wrote to you I was seized with a violent cold which turned to a cough & prevents my bathing for ten days: but I hope to have no further interruption as the evenings grow long & I begin to grow very tired of them tho the society has been better than I was taught to expect, & a Derby lady (who is come here to meet her husband from Ireland) expresses astonishment at my improved appearance - therefore I ought to be contented.

This Cauldron of Medea naturally reminds me of M.^rs Smith. One of the pleasantest divines I have ever seen who spent the last week with us speaks of her new publication with such delight that I quite long to read it, but I fear I must wait till I return to Derby as we have no circulating library & I am told I shall hardly be able to get it