7O Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



his ground and improving his manufacture. To his 

 brother John in London he wrote : " I have just begun 

 a course of experiments for a white body and glaze, 

 which promiseth well. Sally is my chief help in this 

 as well as other things, and that she may not be 

 hurried by having too many irons in the fire, I have 

 ordered the spinning-wheel into the lumber room. . . . 

 I do not intend to make this ware at Burslem, and am 

 therefore looking out for an agreeable and convenient 

 situation elsewhere." 



On 2nd March 1765 Wedgwood took the oppor- 

 tunity of informing Sir William Meredith, who had 

 sent him some elegant Vases to imitate, with many 

 other specimens of ancient pottery, of his operations. 

 The bulk of the manufactures at Burslem w r as ex- 

 ported to foreign markets ; for the home consumption 

 was very trifling in comparison to that which was sent 

 abroad. The principal markets were on the continent 

 and in North America. To the continent he sent an 

 amazing quantity of ordinary white stoneware, as well 

 as some of the finer kinds. He was afraid that the 

 trade to the colonies would soon be lost, as potworks 

 were already being established there. 



" They have at this time," said Wedgwood to Mere- 

 dith, "an agent amongst us hiring a number of our 

 hands for establishing new potworks in South Carolina, 

 having got one of our insolvent master potters to con- 

 duct them. They have every material there equal, if 

 not superior, to our own, for carrying on the manufac- 



