1792-1800] Gunville Tarrant 13 



you in this strain. If it should for a time revive your 

 sorrow, it cannot long injure your tranquillity, to be told 

 that I love you, esteem you, and admire you truly and 

 deeply. 



I took possession of this place this morning with very 

 different feelings from those I should have had if we had 

 been together. I have made up my mind to-day not to 

 add anything to the buildings until I shall have become 

 better acquainted with the place. On looking more closely 

 at the stables I see that 1 5 or 20 pounds laid out will enable 

 them to serve a year or two, and I shall not be in a hurry to 

 do more. 



The last waggon-load from Upcott came about an hour 

 after me, with all the live stock in good condition. I was 

 very well pleased to be saluted by a neigh from the gig- 

 horse the moment she heard my voice Dido is so like Donna 

 that I thought it was she recovered. I find the aloes were 

 not quite so good a bargain as we thought, for they were 

 killed by the frost when they were brought. 



I shall be here en famille in about 10 days, and possibly 

 my mother and sister with us, but I do not know. In the 

 beginning of April we go to town and there stay to the end 

 of May. Whether we shall then go to Cresselly or Etruria 

 I do not know. 



I have written to Gregory Watt 1 to send me a copying 

 machine, that I may send duplicates by another packet, a 

 precaution you must not forget. I will send you more 

 copying paper. I shall curse the French with great sin- 

 cerity if they take the packet bearing your first letter. 

 How anxiously will it be expected, and with what emotion 

 will it be opened and read ! You will hear from us in a 

 month, or less, after your arrival, and we must not expect 

 to hear from you in less than four months from your 

 departure. Very few of the letters I write afford me any 

 pleasure, but I foresee a great pleasure in writing to you 

 all that comes, and just as it comes. There is a pleasure in 



1 Son of James Watt, and an intimate friend of the Wedgwood 

 brothers. 



