Dear Sir

Thanks for y^r favour. as to M^r White, I shall not quarrel with him only fling my books into more hands.¹ for the future send all parcels to M^r Burk at Mr Middleton’s chambers in the Temple.

I sent M^r Low’s voy. to M^r Gough this week & shall next month deliver to him all the rest of his works. So consult with him the means of returning them to you.

Pray accept a copy of my Welsh Tour & when you get them, give one to D^r Ramsay — to M^r Lautie of Fordyce near Banff, M^r Pope of Reay. after y^r answer to this inclose to Sir Roger Mostyn Bruton Street London. I [sic]

In respect to M^r Low I will sollicit subscription. But let him or his friends think of a bookseller.

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

Tho. Pennant

Downing March. 3^d 1778.

My best wishes to D^r Ramsay. I rejoice to hear from you this moment that he is better.

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant may have been aggrieved by an apparent conflict of interest in his bookseller Benjamin White's near simultaneous publication in 1777 of William Curtis's Flora Londinensis and John Lightfoot's Flora Scotica, the latter of which Pennant had personally sponsored. See also Pennant's letter to Paton on February 22 1778 and Paton's reply of March 5.