Dear Sir

Downing April 24^th - 88

I thank you for your kind attention to my wants. Be so good as to deduct the price of Tangiers from Moses's bill & pay the remainder to Mesr^r Gosling. I will discharge y^raccount with the former. I have found the Holl[...]ar's muff so please not to trouble yourself further about it. Last night I sent off by the Chester coach the first parcel of the arctic zoology which you will receive before this. in the first leaf I put the Boreas from the Temple of the winds which I thought would suit the subject. In the parcel is one for a m^r Christie which please to give House room to, for it will be called for.

I heartily wish you & miss Bulls¹ a good journey into Cornwel [sic]. It will give a better relish for the isle of Wight. It is my way to India not to Nowva Zemlja that I am to call on you: old men should seek the Sun. By the by let me request you to pay close attention to the outside of the carved church at Launceston & also its very curious castle. and if you can make excursions, Pray visit the very curious one of Roche Rock beyond Bodmin.

I shall be glad to hear how M^r Burell & how M^r Storer do. I am alway anxious ab^t the health of my firmer friends.

I must bring in my Son. He was very desirous of visiting Gibraltar but the Pestilence & embargo by sea & the peevish monarch of spain by land, will deprive him of the sight.

Adieu D^s Sir Y^rs most truely

T. Pennant

Have you any of the Edinburgh Barber's etchings of Edinburgh Gentry?

Pray get the rest of thY^r arctic Zoology fr^m M^r Hughs Hot pressed &c & sent to me. you need not wait for the Index.

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Editorial notes

1. Elizabeth and Catherine Bull.

i. It is unclear whether Bull here refers to Pennant's Supplement to the Arctic Zoology (London, 1787) or to further printed matter relating to the 'Introduction of the Arctic World'.