Downing Feb. 2^d.

Dear Sir

many thanks for y^r kind Letter &c give yrself no trouble about the Ph. Tr. plate for that shall be my care. copies of the plates in Sib. Phalain is all I want: the Book I find I can borrow in London. where I shall be in less than a month. parcels may be sent to M^r White’s Bookseller Fleetstreet. Letters inclosed to Sir R. Mostyn M.P. Bruton Street.

you make me very happy by the account you transcribed from Jo. Frazer. was he Dean of the isles, or son to him. pray what date. the Indexes will be most welcome.¹

If I write little at a time attribute it to the too great affairs I have on hand: but believe me

with much esteem y^rs

T P.

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Editorial notes

1. See Pennant, Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 (Chester: 1774), p.285: 'Mr. Frazier, son to the DEAN of the isles, informed Mr. Sacheverel governor of the isle of Man, who visited Iona in 1688, that his father had collected there three hundred inscriptions, and presented them to the Earl of Argyle; which were afterwards lost in the troubles of the family.'