Downing Sept^r 4^th 1778.

Dear Sir

I cannot express sufficiently the joy I feel at the good news you send respecting D^r Ramsay whom I truely value. I wait impatiently for a letter from him. I now promote & patronise as far as the evil times will permit, a work relative to y^r country, a tour undertaken three years ago at my expence intended as supplemental to my own & to be illustrated with beautiful plates; of which I mean to send you specimens.¹

Have you yet got M^r Low’s M.S. which I sent so long ago to M^r Cadel. I shall be much grieved if it should miscarry.

I last winter in consideration of White’s large family & my long connection made up matters with him but I have just discovered in him such audacious misconduct that merits due punishment. more of this a few months hence.

I rest D^r Sir
faithfully y^rs

T Pennant.

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Editorial notes

1. Charles Cordiner's Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant (London: 1780). See Pennant's letter to Paton on 17 January.