Dear Sir

yr kind Letters of the 8th. & 15th. inst met me here. I am quite angry at yr thinking of buying any of my works when you have such a just clame to all I can do. but neither vol. can appear before the latter end of. next month.1 I hope to get Johnstons poems here; so do trouble yourself about them [sic]. Be so good to peruse & then forward the inclosed to Mr Low. I am in much haste.

Dear Sir
yr most obedt Servt

Tho. Pennant

London

March. 21. 1774.

Mr. Paton

Custom House

Edinburgh

Walther Williams

Stamp: (postmark) 21/MR

Stamp: (frank) FREE

Stamp: (postmark) WR


Mr. Paton

Custom House

Edinburgh


Stamp: (postmark) 21/MR
Stamp: (frank) FREE
Stamp: (postmark) WR

Editorial notes
1. Both the third edition of Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769 and the first edition of his Tour in Scotland and Hebrides 1772 were published in 1774.