June 18^th 1773.

Dear Sir

I give you many thanks for y^r kind Letter & shall be glad of the answers to the queries at your convenience. Let me beg as an addition to y^r trouble that you w^d step to Lord Dunmores Lodging & examine whether the figure in the picture of Ch.1 & his Queen which I call a boy is not a dwarf for I have occasion to think it, little Jeffrey Hudson the noted dwarf of that monarch.

as soon as I have time I will inform you of the missing numbers of the magazines. M^r Ruddiman may inclose them as usual to me & I will pay for them as before, for I shall on recollection be long before I get them by way of London.¹

I rejoice at the Liberality of y^r Post office that suffers science to go untaxed. Pray forward the inclosed to M^r Low. I have sent him now almost all the work, but at present have not a frank to him ––––– on looking I find I have sent it I mean Sibalds [sic] Whales: but instead send him some prints.

Pray present my compliments to M^r Clark & let him know I can fix no Time for my publication as there are so many plates to be engraven. But those retard all works as the artists are tedious. as soon as Sibbalds work is completed (for that waits for the plates). I shall beg y^r acceptance of it.

I am D^r Sir
very faithfully Y^rs

Tho. Pennant

I leave the directions to you.

GfreeHunt

Daniel Mattinger P. to Chap.1.

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Editorial notes

1. There are frequent references throughout this correspondence to an unnamed Edinburgh magazine, issues of which Pennant appears to have received through Paton. On the basis of Pennant's naming in this letter of Walter Ruddiman, this and other mentions of 'the magazine' or 'magazines' are identified as the Weekly Magazine, or, Edinburgh Amusement (1768-1777), of which Ruddiman was the proprietor.