Dear Sir

April 7. - 91:

I will feed & feed you during our existence with the overflowings of my brains: as for example with what attends this.¹ As to Lady Salisbury I thank you for the Princely gift: but return her Ladyship as of no use. a Dowager Lady S. I have bought (in her weeds) [...] will suit my journey to London. So get [...]one from Richardson. I am above selling my books to any but Booksellers. If you wish to pay me, try to get me a Hague edition of Monfau[...]con's mon. Fr. but Pray leave off that Princely usage of an order for the Day That Pennant be, or be not let in.²

Adieu
Y^rs truely

T Pennant

April 7^th.

My 2^d vol. of France shall be y^r next repast.

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Editorial notes

1. The enclosure suggested here has not survived with the manuscript letter.
2. Pennant's play on word revolves around the meaning of the term 'letting in' in the context of extra-illustration – i.e. to insert material onto pages – and in reference, possibly, to a copy of a portrait of himself.