Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull

August 1793

ID: 1170 [see the .xml file] [download the xml file]
Identifier: NLW 5500C, no. 120
Editors: Transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019)
Cite: 'Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull August 1793' 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/1170]

Augt. 17941

since I seal’d the letter I found yr acct of the lighthouses.2 but this will serve to ask – is there any modern house at Beaulieu, & whose.?

How does the house of Industry go on. does it continue its manufactures?

How is Mr Clarke. my best Complimts to him.

Is the passage thro’ the needles really prohibited to men of war?

Editorial notes
1. The identity of the hand is uncertain, and the date is incorrect. Bull responds to the queries raised here in a letter of 3 September 1793 (1171).
2. See 1169.