Dear Sir

y^r very obliging favor has just reached me I can think of no other books: but leave to you any additions^xi you think requisite on that head. could you borrow for my own use a good light gun I should be much obliged. It is impossible for me to revisit Elgin: but every communication will be gratefully & publically acknowledged to every Gentleman that favors me with them.

I shall have the pleasure of seeing you at Edinburgh before I visit Roslin.

As my good neighbour our member is absent I am at a loss for Franks; therefore beg the favor of you to present my thanks to Doctor Hope for his kind Letter.

I shall be very glad of M^r Stewarts company if he can stow himself aboard the ship which is hired at my sole expence: He will be welcome to such diet as I make use of; the voyage shall cost him nothing, but it is to be hoped Scotland will furnish him with sheets, & frank him to Greenock & from Ardmady the conclusion of the voyage to his own house. I am ready to do all I can for y^r country, but my own expences will be great, for my troop consists of Rev^d M^r Lightfoot. French serv^t. painter serv^t. Lanscape [sic] painter a fowler. & ^besides a groom I must leave with the horse. not that I w^d discourage M^r Stewart from going for I wish to leave an Eleve behind in N. Britain: if he chuses to come he must repair to Glasgow by June 15^th. Please to direct y^r next to the Postoffice Carlisle.

I am Dear Sir
y^r much oblig^d
humble Serv^t

TPennant

Downing April 24^th 1772.

Pray send Mr Gough one of my printed letters if you can get it franked.