Dear Sir

Downing Febr. 26^th - 91

You & I are certainly related: for y^r expedition can only be equalled by my own.

In Magna Britan[...]nia vol. II p. 863 is an ample acc^t of Southwick which I discover^d this morning.¹ Cambden & Gough are silent about this remarkable place. I have a most charming head of Charles I by Vandyck. purchas^d about 50 years ago from the very house in question: It was presented by that worthy ^Portsmouth Commissary Pusey Brook, & given by him to a neighbor of ours, who again presented it to [...]my father. I hope much may be collected concerning that house: but no haste is required.

I am much obliged to M^r H. M. for his intelligence.

I will send you the Birds in due time

Moses will rejoice to obey y^r commands.

The Edinburgh Barber is inexhaustible

Y^rs most truely

T Pennant

so good as to give me the name of Marseilles Good Bishop. when he died where buried & has he a tomb. If you cannot m^r Seward perhaps can: to whom I make free to inclose a line.

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Editorial notes

1. The account of Southwick is at p. 863 of Thomas Cox, Magna Britannia, II, as Pennant notes here.