Dear Sir

Next week I shall send the parcel directed to M^rs Luther: so you will get it earlier than by my first plan. my fame & master Faulders interest urge the new Edition of London. you may have flung some labor away: but have I not done the same? I shall augment & correct that considerably; so that I doubt not it will be an everlasting book. I am now plagued about new editions: one of the indian & another of the arctic zoology must go soon to the press: so you see how I am visited in my age for my old sins.

I have wrote today to London for paper for our Iter Doverianum or vectianum¹ as it happens to be. For the latter Be so good as to pick up all you can about the pictures in at Sir R^d Worseley's.² I am sorry you are silent about the new publication of y^r delicious isle. It indicates no complim^t to the performance. Is not Ireland’s Tour exquisite as to plates: but further the deponent saith not. I hope he will be encouraged at the former account in his voyage of the Thames. I feel y^r distress at the redundancy of visitants. I have had my share: but there it was of old friends: I only complain that they came in gluts: I love hospitality: but not a great table: I never wish above five beyond my old family: a great meal & a great conversation never was to my taste, one loads my stomach: the other confounds my intellects. I have before me the prospect of a pleasant journey wind & weather permitting for I am to cross the abominable ferry at Conwy to my good friend Lord Penrhyn who urges us to come to see him at his old castle which I am told he has fitted up most admirably. a few other quiet friends will be taken in my way: & then I shall wrap myself up like a dormouse for the winter.

Health & happiness attend you & y^rs.
Adieu
Y^rs most truely

T. Pennant.

Downing Sept^r 4^th 1790

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