Dear Sir

I was in hopes of hearing that you was confirmed in y^r town residence before this especially as I am now fixed on a short visit to the capital next month. your company will be no small comfort during my stay. Moses begs y^r acceptance of the inclosed for p. 56^X of the welsh Tour. He is much vexed about the dirt on some of the pages; but hopes not to forfeit y^r favor. I must inform you of a very disagreable disappointment he has experienced from a welsh squire of very considerable fortune¹ who bespoke [...] a first volume of the welsh tour on large paper illuminated on the margins as your is with numbers of other drawings & prints. This is a heavy loss to him. you will lay me under an obligation if you would recommend it to a purchaser. The poor man is much hurt by the dirty treatment he met with, as he had entered into a small business on the strength of the expectation. I annex in the P. S. the number of drawings, which will be charged as yours were.

I am
Dear Sir
with truest regard
Y^rs most faithfully

T Pennant

Downing Febr. 13 1786. Q.^th.²

^X virgula divinatoria.³
147 coats of arms
103 views &c on the margin & some large drawings the size of the leaf.

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Editorial notes

1. The man in question has not been identified.
2. The year 1786 is added by Richard Bull in pencil with a 'Q.' denoting uncertainty.
3. 'Divining rod'. Pennant writes that Agricola ‘places no kind of faith in it, assuring us, that the skilful miner should follow the natural signs of the mineral veins, and despise the use of these enchanted sticks’. Pennant, A tour in Wales MDCCLXX (1778), p. 54.

i. At the bottom of the page in Richard Bull's hand.
ii. See Bull's comment on having recommended Moses Griffith's rejected extra-illustrated first volume of A tour in Wales to several 'Amateurs', in 1052.