Thomas Pennant to David Skene

10 August 1769

ID: 0393 [see the .xml file] [download the xml file]
Identifier: Aberdeen University Library, Special Collections MS 483, 56
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Transcribed from a volume of scribal copies of Pennant's original letters to David Skene. The copies are likely the work of Alexander Thomson, who on his death in 1868, bequeathed the collection to Aberdeen University Library. See Colin A. McLaren, ‘Reports and surveys of archives in northern Scotland’ in Northern Scotland: A Historical Journal, Volume 1 (1972), pp.115-125.
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Dear Sir

I give you my best thanks for the great civilities I received from you at Aberdeen; and which I shall take true pleasure in requiting when I return home. It will give me great pleasure to hear from you at Edinburgh at the Post Office about 3 weeks hence and as I have not so good an account of the state of Stocking and Wool Trades of the country as I could wish, you will do me a great favour in promising one and inclosing it to me; for I would willingly be accurate should I publish.1 If you see D. G. Skene or Dr. Levingston I beg my best complements to these. I am very happy in experiencing the hospitality of Lord Errol.

I am Dear Sir with
True regard
Your much obliged and most obedient Servant

Tho. Pennant

Slains Aug. 10th. 1769.

Be so good as to add to my box any Aberden [sic] fossils with their history.

Editorial notes
1. An account of Aberdeen's stocking trade is included in Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769: see 3rd edition (Warrington: 1774), p.136.