Dear Sir

M^r Bailey sent me a proof on just the same paper: but I hope next month all will be finished¹ Be so good as to inclose (the first week in April) To Sir Roger M. Bruton street London.

P.1. of my Sir D^d Lindsay is the Prologue. The last is 140 Let there be made &c In short the same as y^rs but I cannot find the lines I quote which I found quoted in another book.²

Be so good as forward the inclosed.

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

T. Pennant

Downing March. 7^th
1777.

I wish much for any corrections or remarks on my last tour I hope you will now encrease my debt of 17^Shillings that I may send you a bill. the other was too trifling.

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant is referring to the completion of A Map of Scotland, the Hebrides and Part of England adapted to Mr Pennant's Tours, published in 1777.
2. Pennant is attempting to locate the source of the poem on the death of Cardinal David Beaton quoted in his Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 Part II (London: 1776), p.194. See his letter to Paton on 14 February 1777.