| Description | Dear Sir,
I send you the bill, but when you may receive it, I am not learned enough in posts to tell. This Captn has gone somewhere or other astray I suppose, for I have seen nothing of him since you two decamped together, so I know nothing of your spring wheels. I did imagine you had both of you fallen into some bottomless pit in Derbyshire, or had been dipped into a cistern of air compounded with the inflammable principle, so I am very glad to hear you are alive. Luna cornea will not do by cementation , but I have silvered most admirably as people tin iron plates. You very clever friend Mr Robinson & his pupil passed friday evening with me to my great satisfaction. I told them I hoped soon to travel in a firey chariot of your invention. Dear Watt I wish you a good journey, and am with the greatest regard
Your most affectionate
humble Servt.
W. Small.
Monday I know not what day of September
1768.
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