Downing Jan. 17^th 1778

Dear Sir

I hope the Prints will reach you in a fortnight. The selling Price is now settled at 5^S. out of which M^r Elliot is to have 1^S—^d6. I am glad it is put so low, as it will in these times go off better. I have just had two of M^r Lows drawings engraven. after they have had some slight correction, I will send you proofs for him.¹

I will now let you into the secret of new travels. They are by M^r Cordiner episcopal clergyman at Banff who was so obliging as to go from thence to the end of Cathness & penetrate into the interior parts. he will publish his tour in a Series of letters to me, as it will be Supplemental to my books.² By spring I will send proofs of the fine plates to be shewn at M^r Elliots in order to give a foresight of the work. I think M^r Cordiner as fine a draughtsman as any in England.

I am
D^r Sir
faithfully y^rs

T. Pennant

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Editorial notes

1. A selection of Low's drawings of the Northern Isles later appeared in Pennant's Arctic Zoology. Vol. I. Introduction. Class I. Quadrupeds.(London: 1784), plates III-V.
2. Published as Charles Cordiner, Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant (London: 1780). See Pennant's subsequent letters to Paton on September 4 and October 9 1778.