Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull

29 January [1785]

ID: 1050 [see the .xml file] [download the xml file]
Identifier: NLW 5500C, no. 47
Editors: Transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019)
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Next letter: Not supplied
Cite: 'Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull 29 January [1785]' transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019) in Curious Travellers Digital Editions [editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/doc/1050]

Dear Sir

With great Grief I say our parcel from moses came to Town the 22d. & is stolen from the coach office.1 I shall sue the owners a poor recompence but want to see you to consult about method. shd I advertise.

Yrs truely

T. Pennant

Upper Brook street Jany 29th. - 862

Richard Bull esqre | Stratton street | Piccadilly


Richard Bull esqre | Stratton street | Piccadilly


Editorial notes
1. Cf. another example of a loss of property documented by the reference to a suit against the Chester coach to which Pennant refers in 1086, dated 19 May 1789.
2. The year [17]86 was probably added at a later date by Richard Bull. Pennant's reference to a delay in his intended arrival in London in 1053, 4 March 1786, suggests that his London visit did not take place as early as January during 1786. The year 1785 is suggested instead as a possible date in view of the evidence of Pennant's movements provided by the Pennant-Bull correspondence as a whole.