March 18^th 1772.

Dear Sir

your very obliging favor & the drawing reached me this day & were most acceptable. As I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you the latter end of the summer, please not to trouble yrself with sending anything else, till I have the satisfaction of receiving them from y^r own hand. But in the interim let me beg you & every friend to favor me with instructions of what I sh^d attend to. Such Letters may be wrote till April 26^th. I purpose to be at Glasgow abt the 12^th of June.

y^r other Bird with a long under mandible I presume to be the Rhyncops of Linnaeus, the cutwater of Catesby. It has been supposed to be peculiar to America.

I flatter myself that I shall find y^r collection much encreased by means of y^r American correspondents.

My best compliments attend M^r Clarke: let me beg the favor of him to leave the recommendatory Letters with Doctor Ramsay. I imagine I shall not visit any of the western coasts till I meet my friend at Glasgow.¹

You honor the queries much by y^r intention. please to make any use of these you chuse; & may success attend them: I also have requested D^r Ramsay to get some abridged copies printed to be sent as my avant-couriers.

It shall be my care to procure you a set of the Prints of my Tour: also the imperfections of the Zoology. My best compliments attend D^r Hope & every enquiring friend.

I am Dear Sir
y^r most obed^t serv^t

Th. Pennant.

6 ^y

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Editorial notes

1. During his stay at Glasgow in 1772, Pennant visited the engineer John Golborne, who was then involved in deepening the River Clyde for navigation by larger vessels. See Pennant, A tour in Scotland, and voyage to the Hebrides (Chester: 1774), p.58.