Downing Decr 24^th 1775.

Dear Sir

I am very negligent in respect to my Letters but that inclosed to you is for Doctor Ramsay. any account about the Saury will now be too late. You need not trouble y^rself ab^t M^r Balfours catalogue. only should he have Wilkins Leges saxonicæ I should be glad of it. or Ballendines translation of Boethius: or the english black letter Froissart. I think the acc^t of Dornadilla’s Tower was in the St James’s Chronicle.¹ I received Shaw, & Renfrewshire safe: & am indebted to you for them. As to magazines I wish for them only annually: for I lose them. M^r Grose now goes on with spirit after a long interruption by reason of other business. I heartily wish you many happy returns of this season

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

Tho. Pennant.

Be so good as to put the inclosed in the post.

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant appears to be mistaken here: see his previous letter to George Paton on December 3^rd 1775.