D^r Sir

your kind Letter of april 1^st came safe to hand. my best compliments to M^r Clark: Let me beg that he w^d favor me with his instructions & Letters at the Post office at Carlisle by the 28^th of next month, or any that will be useful in the islands or the west may be delivered to Doctor Ramsay who will be so food as to meet me this side Glasgow.

I rejoice at y^r zeal in procuring drawings: Let me impart a resolution by which you will see the use I mean to make of them if you will please to communicate any to me: It is my design in time to give an Iconical edition of my whole Tour, consisting of all the drawings of places I can procure, with explanations.¹ If y^r Part of the isle favor this design by the free communication of drawings, It may depend on my part. No Print therefore will be disposed of except to such particular friends as M^r Paton.

I rejoice to hear that a new survey of the orknies is to be given.

Please to make my complim^ts to D^r Ramsay: let him know I have received his favor of April 7^th & will answer it in a post or two.

I am Dear Sir y^r most obed^t humble Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

Downing April 15^th 1772.

Please to write to me at Carlisle if agreable to you.

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House in Edin^b stopt payt 26 March 1764.

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Editorial notes

1. No 'Iconical edition' of the tours in Scotland such as Pennant describes here was ever published, but Pennant did work on several private extra-illustrated copies over the following decades, now held in the National Library of Wales and recently digitised.