Thomas Pennant to John Mackenzie

7 December 1774

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Identifier: NLS Delvine Papers, MS.1423, 8-9
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Cite: 'Thomas Pennant to John Mackenzie 7 December 1774' in Curious Travellers Digital Editions [editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/doc/0404]

Dear Sir

Your polite answer through Mr Paton demands my immediate thanks.1 I have said much of yr place, & am engraving a plan taken by a scavant who wishes to be nameless you will find it in a volume I trust you will accept when published.2

The point I wish information about relates to the account given by Maitland in his history of Scotland I. p.199 of a Hypocaust & other antiquities found at Delvin. If any be so good as to confirm & particularise them. a line addressed to me no 11 vere street oxford Chapel will find me in London for a month to come.

I shall be extremely happy to be of any use to you there being with much esteem

Dear Sir
Yr obliged & most obedt Servt

Tho. Pennant

Downing Decr. 7th 1774.

Be so kind as to give me the name of the Ferry over the Tay, where I had the mortification of leaving you so wet.

To

John Mackenzie esqr:

of Delvin

near Perth

To

John Mackenzie esqr:

of Delvin

near Perth

Editorial notes
1. See Pennant's letter to Paton on 7 December 1774.
2. The plan Pennant mentions was by Colonel William Roy, whose views of Roman encampments at Ardoch, Comrie and Inchtuthill were published in Pennant’s A tour in Scotland 1772, part II (1776), plates VII, IX and X, fifteen years before their posthumous appearance in Roy’s own Military Antiquities in North Britain (1793). See WCRO CR2017/TP19.