Dear Sir

Downing Dec^r 9^th. 1770.

I must own I was much chagrined at not receiving your summons to wait on you at Northop; but am extremely glad to find you have not left me off. many thanks for the Fibula which M^rs Roberts gave me most punctually.¹ As to the Ring it is at present in my possession; being upon sale, but as I do not intend to purchase it would recommend the owner to send it to London. When we meet which I trust will be there should it not prove convenient to you to give me a visit here, we shall discuss your discoveries. I truely rejoice that you are to be placed in a situation so much to y^r mind.² I beg to hear from you when fixed & to be favored with your address. I was sometime near Wrexham & heard much of your tender & polite behaviour to M^rs Lloyd y^r Aunt; for which I beg leave to join in ^the thanks due from her Relations I write to you at Sychton as the likeliest place to catch. if there my complim^ts to M^r Conway, or any friends [...]this happens to find you with.

I remain Dear Sir

Yours very affect^ly

Tho. Pennant

Jack Foulkes is at my Elbow & sends complim^ts.

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Editorial notes

1. A brass brooch (accession no. 1925.351) is among the items from Pennant's collection housed at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. On the items in this collection, many of which were provenanced to Shetland, see C. Stephen Briggs, 'Thomas Pennant: Some Working Practices of an Archaeological Travel Writer in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain', in Constantine and Leask (eds.), Enlightenment Travel and British Identities, pp. 59–61.
2. This may refer to John Lloyd's admission to the Middle Temple on 12 November 1770. See H. A. C. Sturgess, Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple from the Fifteenth Century to the year 1944 (London: Butterworth & Co., 1949), vol. I, p. 371.