Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull

13 May 1792

ID: 1153 [see the .xml file] [download the xml file]
Identifier: NLW 5500C, no. 106
Editors: Transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019)
Cite: 'Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull 13 May 1792' transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019) in Curious Travellers Digital Editions [editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/doc/1153]

Dear Sir

I hope you will keep 2 of the indian portraits one of the heads of the [?trapping] Rub-rust. I wish much for one with a sallow complexion & white beard: & another with a black skin. They will be of real use to me: & not to stare at.1 Pray put them to acct. I do not beg. all my communications to you are spontaneous & en amitié.2 If I succeed in my request, Pray send them speedily to Sir R. M.

Adieu
Yrs most truely

T Pennant

Beverey
may 13th3-92

Stamp: (postmark) A MA 14 92
Stamp: (handstamp) WORCESTER

Richard Bull esqr. | Stratton Street | Piccadilly | London

Richard Bull esqr. | Stratton Street | Piccadilly | London

Stamp: (postmark) A MA 14 92
Stamp: (handstamp) WORCESTER
Marginalia

On address side, in Richard Bull's hand:

Cliffords Tower. Woolarton Hall.

Editorial notes
1. Pennant's interest in Indian heads presumably related to his work on 'Outlines of the Globe'.
2. 'in friendship'.
3. in another hand: