Dear Sir

I thank you for y^r last favor: & shall hope the answer to my questions about the Macgregors is on its way. I leave home soon. you need not answer this soon. but after the 25^th ^of next month inclose to Sir Roger M in Bruton street London, for I shall be in town quickly after. I fear you give up poor M^r Low: his M.S.S. shall have the same attention paid to them as ever. I trust that the drawings will be sent.

I am vastly pleased with Lord Hails work. he did me the honor to present one. I know nothing of the [...] magazine. I think I have seen M^r Oliphants views which are excellent. What I may hereafter published [sic] will not be injured by any other work. I have been lucky enough to get a plan of Dornadilla’s Tower.¹ I shall thank you for anything you can get without much trouble.

I am
Dear Sir
y^r affect. humble Servt

Tho. Pennant

Downing Feb. 23^d. 1776.

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Editorial notes

1. The author of the plan mentioned here was Pennant's correspondent, Alexander Pope, minister of Reay in Caithness. See Pope's appendix to A tour in Scotland 1769 (3rd edn., 1774), pp.336-66 and WCRO CR2017/TP339 15.