Downing Dec^r. 8^th 1772.

Sir

various avocations at home after my long absence prevented me from sooner making my acknowledgemen^ts for the great civility I experienced the last summer at your house: it was a continuance of the hospitality The Highlands are so noted for.¹ Please to accept my best thanks for the pleasure I enjoyed while at Delvin which I shall be happy to return to any of your friends who should ever visit these parts. Please to present my compliments to M^rs & Miss Mackenzie

& think me with great
regard
Sir Your obliged &
most obedient humble Serv^t

Thomas Pennant

Decem^r. 8^th. 1772

Thomas Pennant Esq^r

If any answer to be sent to M^r Paton Custom house

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant stayed with Mackenzie for around four days during the second leg of his 1772 tour: see A tour in Scotland 1772, part II (1776), p.67.