Downing May 15^th 1773.

Dear Sir

I am extremely glad that my trifling present was acceptable: but I still must hold myself in y^r debt. I rejoice that M^r Low has got my Books, being sure he will make good use of them. I do my best to stimulate him to visit Shetland which will complete the history of our isles. When you write to him beg he would collect the eggs of the arctic gull & observe how many they lay.

All y^r notes will be acceptable; especially any you can collect respecting Caerlavoroc castle & its sieges.

I can very well content myself with the engraving of the Cruikston Dollar in Anderson.¹

I am much obliged to M^r Macgovan for his parcel which I shall acknowledge on its arrival. Be so good as to put the Letter for Montrose into the post & send the other to D^r Ramsay.

I am Dear Sir with much regard

y^rs

Tho. Pennant

I think M^r Low should know what papers relate to orkney in the advocates library.

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Editorial notes

1. A reference to a coin supposed to have been minted by Mary Queen of Scots to commemorate her union with Lord Darnley at Crookston Castle: an opinion disputed in Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1772 (Chester: 1774), p.163.