Dear Sir

Your kind favors of nov^r. 18^th, 20 ^th, 23^d. & 30^th came safe to hand with their inclosures. all demand my best thanks. The q^to Wallace & Bruce also arrived.

Pray make no excuses, for you do more than ever correspondent did before.

I am sure y^r printer can not lose by printing these little old tracts. I will mention them honorably. if I knew who they are printed for in London.

I wish y^r highlander would write a little detail of the maclean’s their origin &c. how they got their ^possessions &c. Holyrood house shall be thought of.

I suppose Cunninghams tract will be acceptable but know nothing of it. The public is always glad of rare things.

I hope M^r Lowis fixed: I shall send him all the notices I can.

Next year there will probably be a new edition of Br. Zoology.¹

you need not mark y^r Letters with a P. it gives suspicion to our jealous post office.

Please to stop the magazines after this quarter: for I will take them bound as I once proposed. pray send y^r bill for them & postage. my stock of franks to you happens to be out, so excuse this one charge. I will soon get more.

I am Dear Sir very truely y^rs

Tho. Pennant

Decr 11^r. 1773.

I suppose M^r Low has mackenzies survey of orknies. he shd have them.

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Editorial notes

1. These plans were delayed: the next edition of Pennant's British Zoology to be published was the fourth edition of 1776-77.