Downing Sept^r 28^th. 1781.

Dear Sir

In respect to your debt to Moses please to leave it alone till he has finished your work. This He will do on the terms he gave in: but will not work so cheap for any one else for he finds he cannot well afford: but of this be silent.

The Print of Mowbray is completed. as are some others. M^r Bartollozi has had near an year & a quarter the fine drawings of Marg^t Countess of Cumberland [...] The [...] Countess of Suffolk both taken from the originals at Gorhambury.¹ He was to have finished them by too morrow [sic]; but will not now even answer my letters. He has a house in Bentinck court Berwick but usually lives at North end Hammersmith:² if can possibly get a sight of him, you will do me & yourself a service for they the heads are rare subjects.

You ought to have a sheet of Letter press with Moses’s ten plates. I believe I have a L. P. set of the prints for you: but not letter press.

I am in high spirits about our affairs. The wisdom of our administration appears to me daily more or more or we never could have resisted the whole world so long.

our best wishes attend your & yours,

Y^rs most truely

T Pennant.

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Editorial notes

1. Old Gorhambury, near St Albans, Hertfordshire, built during the sixteenth century, was replaced by Gorhambury House by 1784. When Pennant visited it in 1780 it was 'unhappily devoted to demolition'. The journey from Chester to London (1782), p. 233.
2. Bartolozzi took a house at North End, Fulham, in 1780.