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the workmen are busy with Vases. I have enough to 

 do to make the pots and manage the potmakers, though 

 man for man I would rather have to do with a shop of 

 potters than painters. Whilst I have been at Etruria, 

 they have had here (at Burslem) Lady Gower, Lady 

 Pembroke, Lord Eobert Spencer, arid others to breakfast. 

 This is the second time the Trentham family have been 

 here while I was absent, but it cannot be helped." 



In an appendix to the same letter to Bentley, in 

 London, Wedgwood says : " Trouble me indeed ! 

 You cannot think how happy you make me with these 

 good, long, affectionate and instructive letters. They 

 inspire me with taste, emulation, and everything that 

 is necessary for the production of fine things, and I 

 hope in a few weeks to show you some of the effects of 

 your excellent advice. ... Oh ! what a feast I have by 

 this post. Thank you for it, my dear and well-beloved 

 friend. . . . Farewell, and believe me evermore, Yours, 

 J. W." 



" I think pride, a certain kind of it and to a certain 

 degree, is productive of a world of good amongst us 

 mortals, who stand in need of every incentive to great 

 and good actions. ... I will engage to supply you 

 with vases enough for all the good painters in England. 

 You say you can sell a waggon-load a week. If you 

 sell that quantity during the season, you must have 

 ten waggon-loads of painters to finish them." 



Towards the end of 1769, Wedgwood was so busy 

 with the manufacture of Vases that he declined to 



