Manchester Memoirs, Vol. L VII. {No. 19). Plate IX. 



HiXURIA, 18//' January., 1793. 



AFTER an unremitting attention of nearly forty years to r. 

 'fnamfaBory which I have had the happinefs to ejiablijh, and to fee fiour'tf: 

 even beyond my mojl fanguine expe5iations, a wijl? to enjoy that eafe and 

 relaxation from the feverlty of bujinejs^jo necejfary In advanced years ^ might 

 perhaps meet with your Indulgence : But a fironger motive urges me to thr 

 new arrflngement which I have now the honour to acquaint you with. — I kavj 

 fons grozvn up, and prepared to enter into the a^lve fcenes of life ; and a 

 nephew, who has long conducted the bujinefs of my warehoufe In London to my 

 entire fatlsfaEilon. They have chear fully undertaken to unite their bejf endea- 

 vours In carrying on the various branches of this manufa^ory, and promifc to 

 purfue, with alacrity a?id diligence, the improvements zuhlch I have begun. 

 I have therefore ajfoclated them with me In bujinefs, under the firm of 

 Jofiah Wedgwood, Sons, and Byerley. 



Permit -me to take this opportunity of returning you my Jincere thanks for 

 the favours you have been pleafed to confer upon me, and to entreat the conti- 

 nuance, to this new eJlabllJJoment, of that goodnefs which I have fo long 

 experienced, ajfuring yourfelf of our utmoji endeavours to merit your 

 frlendjhlp and efteem. 



I have the honour to he, with the greatejl regard, 



7'~oui much obliged, 



and mojl obedient 



humble Servant, 





Business circular of Josiah Wedgwood. 



