Dear Sir

Downing Sept^r 25^th - 88.

Do not despair about the prints of spanish illustrious: for I shall write to my son to get them at Paris if done by any french artists.

I have [...] scarcely ^any sort of trouble to give except on y^r own account. Please to return the sheets you have of the arctic zoology in order to have the additions [...] I discovered. If I must trouble you let it be to get Paterson's acc^t of the cape of Good Hope & add it to y^r Parcel: Please to get it from m^r Robson. I am now sailing by
Mombaza & Quiloa, & melind
And Sofala, thought ophir.¹
But trust we shall meet in the Port of London in December.

Adieu
Y^rs most truely

Th. Pennant

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