Dear Sir

Downing June 19^th. 1786.

I thank you for your kind favor the moment my M.P. is arrived. Be so good as to accept the inclosed & let our friends mess^rs Burel & Storer have their thirds. you shall not suffer by this fr [...] ank of mine for I must desire your acceptance of the salisbury arms, which you will lose by it. I set M^r Faden about making engravings to continue the roads from coventry by Lichfield to chester to to suit my route. He made drawings but dare not engrave them for fear of being punished as a pyrate. He offered them to me at 8 4^s. they are worth it but too much for the Individual. I wish we c^d form a partnership about them & contrive to lessen the weight of the price by getting them copied. I am in the same case as you respecting M^r Chiswel yet I encourage his plan; & shall get my copy done a second time. moses is actually gone among the mountains a gleaning of subjects for it.¹ He shall do for you all you wish: but he is abominably used by my rascally countrymen. I rejoice to hear [...] you talk of returning to y^r own house in Stratton street: that I may flatter myself with meeting you in March & April next I am glad for self sake you have not left the isle of wight. I pursue the InIndtroduction to the Indian Zoology with zeal. I must pass by you & am sorry I cannot land & make you a visit to save you the trouble of answering the annexed queries. my labor is great but my Spirit not less. I hope Miss Bulls² receive all the benefit they c^d wish.

I am Dear Sir most faithfully y^rs

Thomas Pennant

Is the salt in the isle of W. made from the salt water only or is the rock salt brought in aid. how much is exported annually.

How high is the highest tide on any part of the back of the isle. how [...] high in Portsmouth harbour

I caresbrook castle seen from the sea on the back of the isle.³

If you have no franker at hand you may inclose to Sir R. M. Mostyn Flintshire.

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Editorial notes

1. This would appear to be a plan instigated by Richard Muilman Trench Chiswell to publish anew large paper copies of Pennant's A tour in Wales, to which Moses Griffith would have contributed new drawings. On Chiswell's printing of ten such copies, see Eton College Library [external link]; and Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), p. 135, n. 11.
2. Elizabeth and Catherine Bull.
3. For Bull's answers to these three queries see 1055.

i. In Richard Bull's hand.
ii. This is Bull's query as to where to put a drawing of Pennant in his extra-illustrated A tour in Wales. Pennant placed his on p. v of his extra-illustrated A tour in Wales (2nd edn., 1784). See here [external link].