Isaac Russell letter to Thomas Rotch, Lexington, Kentucky, 8th 10 Mo 1817

               
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                      Lex Kn  8th 10th 1817
  Respected Friend
             Thomas Rotch
                   A Gentleman by accident communicated to me
  (at this Counting Room) something I conceived interesting to 
  thee if in the pursuit of establishing a manufactory of fine
  Staffordshire Ware or China.  Respecting his Knowledge &
  access to the spot where the fine material of which they
  are chiefly composed is abundant. - he says it lies between
  (I think) the 34th & 38th degree of North Latitude.
     I enclose a specimen thereof which he told me
  (being a ciderant post master) would go free if under
  half an ounce.  I think it a great discovery, this with
  Silax I suppose would make the most beautiful of ware
                        in the State of Ohio
  I told him a friend of mine,had a prospect of being, or was
  concerned, in that business & that I would transmit any
  information from him on that subject. he therefore put
  down in writing at [illegible] side what he had to com-
  municate which I thought would be no harm, accompa-
  nied with my best respects, to forward. 
    Since thy last I rec'd a Letter from Louisa who is very
  much inclined to renounce the journey to America and
  wishes me to return - she says she was fortunate in
  getting a cheaper & better House than she had and
  also that she has a good school. This has frustrated
                                as to the
  me exceedingly and clouds my views^future
  but I have written her again & advised her should
  she be wholly averse to coming out whether I had not
  better stay here & save 'till I could return with a