Dear Sir

Downing March. 23^d - 91

You have exceeded your habitual munificence & furnished me with most valuable illustrations of my M.S.S. I fear you will find you have robbed y^rself of many dutch Heroes whom you will find fighting in the journal between London & Dover.¹ If you are at a loss I will resign any you want. Else I shall return none.

You over rate the value of my brains greatly: for they are the only consumption I am at the expence of.

The journal must be re-copied. my old sot has brought home the rest, so dirty so creas’d; & with marginal notes on each side, that I was almost ready to bath him in the horsepond: But Tom Jones my young secretary will I am sure give you full content & that soon. He improves daily & writes most delightfully.

I have just had ½ a Ream of Green paper arrived so we can settle that article readily.

A very odd M. S. was sent me last week respecting the markets of London 1598. with many curious ^but bad drawings. My daughter shall bring up two for you by May the 20^th. Those done, nothing shall retard moses from working for you & me solely

All the prints attendant on my Suppl: to London are ch. 1^sts bust. fire of London & old plan of London.

suffer me to place the new Edition in y^r library.

When we settle acc^ts. I shall not forget the pencils which seem excellent.²

The Edinburgh barber offers me a complete se[...]t of his works, for which I am to give him a London.³ the set is to be illustrated with notes. Shall I try to get one for you?

I have a private print for y^r acceptance. That of my ever respected friend Benj. Stillingfleet. Two were just sent to me by his nephew, Captⁿ Locker of the Navy. my daughter shall bring you that also & some odds & ends besides.

I thank you & Sir W. Musgrave for the anecdotes of the Good Bishop. I have picked up much concerning that prelate But cannot get his epitaph?

can M^rs Pennant & I tempt miss Bulls⁴ & yourself to visit wales. the journey will be cer[...]tainly salutary: perhaps pleasant. How many things will you see chez moi⁵ that you can see no where else

Adieu
yrs most truely

T Pennant

You should get for yourself Hollars battle in the Down 1636 between Vantromp & oquendo.

From whence came the terrible negro prints.⁶

I set out on the 15^th [...]on a series of visits for 3 weeks. Tom Jones in that time will finish Dover. Do you want D^r Nash's prints of worcestershire heads. for his house will be one visit.

Doctor Lort's sale will produce a dutch Ed. of Monfaucon. a bad impression but it will do for me. I must get some Bookseller to bid: else I dare say it will go extravagantly.

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Editorial notes

1. The 'dutch Heroes' mentioned may be identified with the 'few trumpery prints' sent by Bull with letter 1127 in answer to Pennant's reference in 1124 to Dutch admirals and captains.
2. See further 1124 and 1127.
3. It is not specified which edition of Pennant's work on London is meant here, whether Of London (1790) or Some account of London (1791).
4. Elizabeth and Catherine Bull.
5. 'at my home'.
6. For another reference to these unidentified prints, see 1130.