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Wedgwood desires Bentley to send him gold pre- 

 cipitate for rose colour, and gold powder. " I am in 

 immediate want of fine smalts and ultramarine." 



A great deal of work had to be done, and money 

 spent, at Etruria, before the works and the houses for 

 the accommodation of the workmen and their families 

 were completed. Wedgwood increased the number 

 of his lathes. " I have committed," he said, " a sad 

 robbery upon my works at Burslem. I have taken 

 James Brown to Etruria, the only turner of good things 

 I had at Burslem. We have not an engine-turner left 

 there now. Poor Burslem ! poor cream colour ! They 

 tell me I sacrifice all to Etruria and Vases ! " But 

 Wedgwood had no alternative. He had received 

 legal notice to quit the Brick House premises ; the 

 landlord himself intended to occupy them. 



Then about money. Of course the estimates were 

 greatly exceeded. Wedgwood wrote to Beritley that 

 he required more money, materials, and hands to finish 

 the buildings. " I want at least 3000 for the purpose 

 not a farthing less; so you must either collect, or 

 take a place for me in the Gazette" After the build- 

 ings for the manufactory, and the houses for the work- 

 men and their families, there was his own mansion, 

 Etruria Hall, to be erected. His family had for some 

 time occupied the house intended for Mr. Bentley, but 

 which he never occupied. In the meantime the 

 other buildings went forward, and the kilns were built 

 by degrees. 



