Dear Sir

I have just time to thank you for yr Letter. Mr Mackenzie is not to have my supplement with him.¹ did you never receive a request from me about Sir D. Lindsay of the Mounts poems: & Ballendin’s translation of Boethius. I have not seen Johnson’s voyage yet. only some strange extracts: & a fling at me I do declare I do not understand.² Pray let me know do any of the Gates of Edinburgh now stand? & what are the names. What is the name of that who [sic] etching you sent long ago.

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

Tho. Pennant.

Feb. 3d 1775

Pray cut of y^r newspapers &c any strictures on Johnson.

^FreeRMostyn

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Editorial notes

1. It is not clear whether Pennant is referring to his Supplement to the Tour in Scotland (Chester: 1772) or The additions to the quarto edition of the Tour in Scotland (London: 1774).
2. Johnson, in an apparent rebuttal of Pennant's closing critique of Highland landlords in A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides (1774), writes that the island of Col was 'without any of the distresses, which Mr. Pennant, in a fit of simple credulity, seems to think almost worthy of an elegy by Ossian.' A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London: 1775), pp.296-97.