Dear Sir

Downing Dec^r 24^th. 1797.

Excuse a short letter to say that I send by this evenings Chester mail, the most material deficiency to y^r copy of the arctic Zoology. As to the two title pages, I am sorry to trouble you with directions about them, vide the inclosed¹ for not being on the spot I cannot assist more than by instruction. Be so good as to order the size of the paper & order a copy of the 2 title pages to be kept for me, because my copies are equally deficient. This bring on anticipation of the good wishes of the season by a single day. Let me request miss Bull & you to accept them with all sincerity from y^r grateful friend. accept also duplicates of eight picturesque drawings taken in the Bay of Fundy or its neighborhood. I fell on them by accident in searching after materials for my pastiferous operations. They were copied fr^m M. de Barres's ^see p. CCCXI magnificent labors which I borrowed from the admiralty several years ago.

Adieu
Dear Sir,
ever & affec^tly yours

Tho. Pennant.

Could you procure me the [...] oct^vo head of Sir Fr. Drake, & of Sir Humphrey Gilbert p CCCIII.

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Editorial notes

1. This is not present with the manuscript letter.