Thomas Pennant to George Paton

15 July 1774

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Dear Sir

I rejoice greatly at the probability of Mr Low’s success. Thanks for yr other favors. shall inspect yr remarks as soon as possible.

Did you not receive from me pasted between a card a half guinea & a quarter guinea. sent to pay for the magazines?

I have written to Mr Cordiners friend. When you have Mr Aulds resolution nothing on my part shall be wanting.

All yr books are arrived & accepted gratefully.

Doctor Burn would have published Cumberland & Westmoreland this year: but for the disputes abt Litterary property.1

Did Mr Jackson or Mr Oliphant ever receive my trifling present.

I am Dear Sir yr most obedt Servt

Tho. Pennant

July 15. 1774

Do as you please abt advertisements.

Editorial notes
1. A House of Lords ruling in 1774 abolished perpetual copyright and upheld the Statute of Anne under which copyright was protected for up to twenty-eight years. See Richard Sher, The Enlightenment and the Book (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp.27-30 and William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).