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uncertain, but he was extremely well & his manners have ever been to me truely [sic] cordial & pleasant. I therefore spent my time there perfectly to my satisfaction; & I was so happy as to find M.^r & M.^rs Wedgewood at home in a morning visit which I paid at Etruria

The grounds are well laid out, & manifest that taste for which M.^r W is so justly esteemed but except one room nearly the exact size & proportions of your Library both house & situation are moderate. I told him your sentiments of the Penelope which he \said he/ should be very happy to shew you again at Etruria.

I confess I agree with my friend M.^rs Heathcote in preferring the Lady in Comus on account of the light which is thrown upon her, tho as M.^r Wedgewood observed any other watching a sick child is an interesting subject

yet after all if M.^r Wright should give me one of his pictures I should make choice of an Italian Landship [?], & I think you will not