Dear Sir

Sir James Dalrymples collections will be most welcome. I shall be happy to make you amends.

The criticks in the magazines of May & June pervert or mistake my meaning strangely, confounding Muir or More the Queen with More the mistress of Robert II.¹ The only error I am guilty of is giving her the name of Elizabeth whereas the name of the concubine has escaped us. Pray does Tarbat, or Hay or anybody else give the Christian name of that Lady. In any new edition I can alter no farther than to change that of Elizabeth into ……. More or Moram. Buchanans clans will be most acceptable. I set out on my ramble on Friday.

I am Dear Sir with the truest regard
y^rs

Tho. Pennant

Downing July 11^th. 1775.

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Editorial notes

1. See letters by 'Vindex' and 'S.W.' in The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 45, May 1775, pp.226-227, and June 1775, pp.264-275. The disputed passage concerns the Stuart's ancestral claim to Bute and Arran, Pennant, Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 (Chester: 1774) p.187.