Dear Sir.

18 Feb:^y 1791.

my Friend Minchin promiss’d to send me to day, some little account of the Forest you saw from Port-Down, but by some blunder or other I have receiv’d only the frank, which it is pity to lose, so I write a line or two that I may correct a blunder of my own. the Forest in question, which I told you was Waltham, is the Forest of Beere, & when I receive his account a few days hence, (for I go into Essex to morrow) you shall have it directly after my return. The Drawing of Lord Fanhope, which Lord Malmesbury has got a lady to take from the original picture of Sir [...]George Cornwalls in herefordshire, arriv’d last night, and I have this morning carried it to Carter¹ to copy for your ^acceptance. – 'tis merely a head. –––

I have got from White the two Title pages to your Journey to London, which answer my purpose very well. –

I wait your list of Spanish, and African prints you have occasion for, that I may look among mine, and send 'em you down when I send Lord Fanhope. I can furnish you with a very good Charles V, & Philip II^d, and, I believe, I have some where got [sic] the present King and & Queen of Spain, if You want them. when I get your list, I will hunt at the print shops also. I have the Introduction to the Arctic World, upon large paper ending at the page as far as page CCCXXXIV. ^illuminated by Moses. together with the Index,² but I don’t find that I have got any large paper copy of the arctic Zoology it self.

I am Dear Sir, for the present,
Yours &^a:

R.B.

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