Dear Sir

op I rejoice greatly at the probability of M^r Low’s success. Thanks for y^r other favors. shall inspect y^r remarks as soon as possible.

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

op I have written to M^r Cordiners friend. When you have M^r Aulds resolution nothing on my part shall be wanting.

op All y^r books are arrived & accepted gratefully.

op Doctor Burn would have published Cumberland & Westmoreland this year: but for the disputes ab^t Litterary property.¹

op Did M^r Jackson or M^r Oliphant ever receive my trifling present.

I am Dear Sir y^r most obed^t Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

July 15. 1774

op Do as you please ab^t advertisements.

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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).