Dear Sir

I thank you for a kind letter: & for the Diss. de Monum. which just arrived. My welsh tour so engrosses me¹ that I have read only fifty pages of M^r Low’s work & that with much satisfaction. I shall bring it with me to London in April & transmit it to you. M^r Gough applied to me for the loan of it which I was sorry for as I thought myself oblig’d to deny him for the reason I gave you. He is a friend I w^d oblige in any other respect. I never suspect you of wilfully injured [sic] any one: but I know y^r universal benevolence might betray you into a communication that we might regret.

When I go to town I will visit M^r Gough & then if you approve show him M^r Lows M.S. but I declare I will never trust it out of my hands. That will suffice to give him a Idea it for the purpose of recording it.

I am sincerely
& with best wishes y^rs

Tho. Pennant.

Downing Jan 11^th 1778.

How does the great map of Perthshire go on?²

Please not to send me a single article yet a while. an odd request! but you shall know the reason of it soon.

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Editorial notes

1. The first edition of Pennant's A tour in Wales was published in 1778.
2. Possibly James Stobie's The counties of Perth and Clackmannan, (London: 1783).