DowningJan. 29^th. 1782.

Dear Sir

My good woman is much more indifferent to London than myself. her attachment to our two little ones quite supersedes all desires after the Capital.¹ She offers me a furlow; but I am so old fashioned that I decline it. I suppose that this year every face will bear the most morose aspect; & that alone will sour the amusements of the town.

You forget that you sent me the letter press of snowdon let into Large paper. on wh[...]ose margins numbers of drawings are already done for you.

Moses has all the copies of The Journey to London on L.P. by way of perquisite & will be glad to serve any Gentleman who bespeaks them. for the comfort of posterity his spouse brought him the last week a young Moses.

I wish much to get the welsh Tour fully of my my [sic] mind; so have begun tahe last part.² I have also sent out 6^d worth of patriotism styled free thoughts on the milita laws which I hope will do more good than all my works put together.

My best complim^ts attend M^rs Luther & Miss Bulls:³ neither let M^r storer be forgotten. I am

Dear Sir
Most truely Y^rs

T Pennant.

If any duplicate prints relative either to snowdon or Journey to London falls in y^rs way I shall be vastly obliged to you for them.

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant refers to the two children from his second marriage, Sarah and Thomas, junior.
2. Taken collectively, this refers to Continuation of the Journey (London: Henry Hughes, 1783), subdivided into part I, 'The Continuation of the Journey', and part II, 'From Downing to Montgomery and Shrewsbury'.
3. Elizabeth and Catherine Bull.
4. Handwritten by Pennant.
5. This is a triangular mark in ink.
6. A round stamp.