Dear Sir

Yesterday only I received M^r Low’s MS.S. the book of prints, & the annals of Scotland. I shall in the course of this winter give the Tour of the orknies a very careful perusal; & select such prints as I think will best promote its sale. I give you many thanks for the prints which are very acceptable. I beg to know who etched & drew them, & whether some are not taken from old drawings being in a far more perfect state than when I saw the place for example Kilchurrn castle & others quite altered e.g. Melvile castle, if that which Lord Levin lives at.

My respectful complim^ts attend Sir D^d Dalrymple & thanks for his most acceptable present. I had bought a copy but will retain this as a memorial of the honor he does me in thinking of me, if he has not my Welsh Tour, please to present one to him in my name from M^r Elliot.

I am Dear Sir
y^r faithful humble Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

Downing Sept^r 17^th. 1779.

^FREERMostyn

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